Well, that's the sad truth...
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Fuchs
I meant the regular forces with "failed personnel policy" and "red tape"
In both cases... :(
Case records (Cannon and Drotleff)
are at Cryptome, including today's DoJ press release, case jacket and the docket card (which doesn't require PACER). The indictment is here.
Judge Robert G. Doumar is assigned to the case. He is a Senior Judge (b. 1930), appointed by Pres. Reagan, who has a very interesting personal bio, as well as experience in GWOT cases (trial judge for Hamdi). See Wiki and official bio.
Secret Desert Force Set Up by Blackwater’s Founder
A NYT expose of a new PMC enterprise in the UAE (Persian Gulf), pre-dating recent events:http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/15/wo...ewanted=1&_r=1
Hat tip to:http://www.enduringamerica.com
Moderator at Work
Today I have merged nine threads on Blackwater into one and so changed the thread title.(Ends)
‘Civilian Warriors: Blackwater and the War on Terror’
‘Civilian Warriors: Blackwater and the War on Terror’
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Erik Prince: Out of Blackwater and Into China
A lengthy WSJ interview of Erik Prince. I suppose he is moving to where the $ can be made; Blackwater follows the pivot or are they the advance guard?
Link:http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/...1,401,641,1009
Justice after seven years
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Security guards working for the private US contractor Blackwater have been found guilty of manslaughter in the deaths of a group of unarmed civilians at a crowded Baghdad traffic junction during one of the darkest incidents of the Iraq war. The massacre in 2007 left a total of 17 people dead and 20 seriously injured after the guards working for the US State Department fired heavy machine guns and grenade launchers from their armoured convoy in the mistaken belief it was under attack by insurgents.
During the trial’s
emotional closing arguments, jurors were told of the “shocking amount of death, injury and destruction” that saw “innocent men, women and children mowed down” as they went about their business in downtown Baghdad.
The federal prosecutor Anthony Asuncion said: “These men took something that did not belong to them: the lives of 14 human beings. They were turned into bloody, bullet-riddled corpses at the hands of these men.”
“It must have seemed like the apocalypse was here,” said Asuncion in his closing argument, as he described how many were shot in the back, at long range, or blown up by powerful grenades used by the US contractors.
Link:http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2...ty-guards-iraq