US private guards kill Baghdad ambulance crewman

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/MAC231727.htm

BAGHDAD, May 2 (Reuters) - American security contractors shot dead an Iraqi ambulance crewman on Tuesday when they opened fire on his vehicle after a roadside bomb blasted their convoy.

Two American civilians were wounded in the incident in north Baghdad, the U.S. military said.

The incident drew an angry response from Iraqi officials, who often complain private foreign guards kill civilians with impunity. Tens of thousands of armed foreigners work in Iraq licensed by U.S. authorities and beyond the reach of Iraqi law.

Reuters journalists saw the dead crewman sprawled in the passenger seat of the ambulance. Clearly marked with a red crescent symbol, its windows had been shattered by bullets.

[ShortnFiery]

1. Sick stuff ...

You just can't keep those boys (American security Contractors) in line.

Perhaps that's because they are our own home grown MERCENARIES? :puke:

[ForrestGump]

3. Not just mercenaries, but

mercenaries sanctioned (not the CIA kind of sanction, though) to operate in US-occupied territory.

Pretty bad.

"Security contractors"? Silly euphemism. What's wrong with the word 'mercenary'?

[ShortnFiery]

6. Get with the program citizen ...

Climb aboard the BushBotBorg team and turn the corner on the big win! :sarcasm:

We can't win the hearts and minds with the term "mercenaries" so the kinder gentler thug term "Contractor" is used.

AS IF we have a chance of winning hearts and minds ... we just want the American Sheeple to think we're trying ... get it? Good! Now go shopping for your next SUV. ;) :puke:

[acmavm]

2. Murder. They hit a roadside bomb so they kill an ambulance

driver. I have no pity for any one of these guys who gets killed over there.

[madrchsod]

4. they will be back in the usa

contracting for private citizens and corporations. they will be this centuries`s "Pinkerton's"

[Rose Siding]

5. Bush said he's going to ask Rums about who polices them.

He told a student at a Q&A that he hadn't even thought about that.

This is just one of Tuesday's examples of how he's dangerous to our national security.

[Coventina]

7. I fucking hate these guys.

My attempts for Buddhist compassion for all beings hasn't reached a level where I can stand the thought of these killers for hire.

I'm working on it, but I'll admit I'm not there yet......