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Blackwater USA : "The Dogs and Whores of War ?"
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Saturday January 27, 2007 04:19 by TD - Cosantoiri Siochana
Blackwater : 'The whores of war' (Katy Helvenston, mother of one of the four Blackwater mercenaries killed in Fallujah, March 31, 2004) Last Tuesday in his State of the Union address, Bush was explicit about the future of the US war machine in Iraq and further afield : "to design and establish a volunteer civilian reserve corps. Such a corps would function much like our military reserve. It would ease the burden on the Armed Forces by allowing us to hire civilians with critical skills to serve on missions abroad when America needs them". However, this force, this outsourcing of privateers is already doing its lethal work in Iraq and Afghanistan, According to a US Government Accountability Office report, there are about 100,000 contractors in Iraq, of which 48,000 are mercenaries, operating with legal immunity and impunity as another iron fist of the Occupation making up to $1,000 a day in blood money, far more than active-duty soldiers. the employment of these mercenaries being politically expedient as any of their deaths go uncounted in the official toll.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2Some interesting developments regarding Blackwater. Blackwater boss Erik Prince really thought he was above the law. What you can get away with in Iraq isn't necessarily the same in the US though.
A former Blackwater employee and an ex-US Marine who has worked as a security operative for the company have made a series of explosive allegations in sworn statements filed on August 3 in federal court in Virginia. The two men claim that the company's owner, Erik Prince, may have murdered or facilitated the murder of individuals who were cooperating with federal authorities investigating the company. The former employee also alleges that Prince "views himself as a Christian crusader tasked with eliminating Muslims and the Islamic faith from the globe," and that Prince's companies "encouraged and rewarded the destruction of Iraqi life."
In their testimony, both men also allege that Blackwater was smuggling weapons into Iraq. One of the men alleges that Prince turned a profit by transporting "illegal" or "unlawful" weapons into the country on Prince's private planes. They also charge that Prince and other Blackwater executives destroyed incriminating videos, emails and other documents and have intentionally deceived the US State Department and other federal agencies. The identities of the two individuals were sealed out of concerns for their safety.
Big John Wayne gun-tottin' talk, that psycho-garbage about bringing heads back in dry-ice boxes. He should try making that statement in Kabul. Idiot children, but dangerous.