Making a Killing: A Blackwater Timeline (Mother Jones blog)

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http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2007/10/5725_making_a_killin.html#more

excerpts:

September 24, 2006
Blackwater convoy driving down the wrong side of the road ("counter flowing") in al-Hillah strikes an oncoming car, propelling it into a telephone pole. The Iraqi car bursts into flames. Blackwater contractors leave the scene without offering help to the victim, who dies in the fire.

December 24, 2006
Drunken Blackwater operator Andrew Moonen shoots the Iraqi vice presidents' security guard in the Green Zone. He is fired, fined, and flown back to the United States, but returns to Kuwait two months later with another private contracting firm.

2007
Blackwater's federal contracts total $1 billion.

May 2007
Blackwater operators fatally shoot an Iraqi man who strayed too close to their convoy outside the Iraqi Ministry of Interior. The incident leads to a tense standoff with Iraqi military and interior ministry guards. U.S. soldiers are forced to intervene.

September 16, 2007
Seventeen Iraqis are killed and 24 wounded when Blackwater operators open fire in a traffic circle in central Baghdad.

[burrowowl]

1. K&R!

[nightrider767]

2. Grand Theft Auto BAGDAD

I think Blackwater's been using the video game Grand Theft Auto to train it's minions....

[swag]

3. Sounds plausible.

[nightrider767]

4. Yeah

Drive around town, jump curbs, shoot people indiscriminately, throw bombs...

Maybe Tipper was right about the negative influence of violent video games. :freak:

[L. Coyote]

5. Making a Political Donation: A Blackwater Timeline

PRINCE, ERIK - CODY,WY 82414 - THE PRINCE GROUP
$68,000 - 10/4/2000 - RNC/Repub National State Elections Cmte -
$20,000 - 10/30/2000 - Republican National Cmte -
$3,950 - 1/30/2001 - RNC/Repub National State Elections Cmte -
.......
$25,000 - 7/14/2004 - Republican National Cmte
.....
$5,000 - 7/21/2006 - Green Party of Luzerne County (This to draw votes from the Dem candidate by helping get a Green on the ballot)
....
$20,000 - 7/27/2007 - National Republican Congressional Cmte

Total for this search: $226,750

MORE: http://www.opensecrets.org/indivs/search.asp?key=ss2h9&txtName=Prince,%20Erik&txtState=(all%20states)&txtAll=Y&Order=D

[AzDar]

6. K & R....

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