http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/02/wa...ref=middleeast
Report Says Firm Sought to Cover Iraq Shootings

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 — Employees of Blackwater USA have engaged in nearly 200 shootings in Iraq since 2005, in a vast majority of cases firing their weapons from moving vehicles without stopping to count the dead or assist the wounded, according to a new report from Congress.

In at least two cases, Blackwater paid victims’ family members who complained, and sought to cover up other episodes, the Congressional report said. It said State Department officials approved the payments in the hope of keeping the shootings quiet. In one case last year, the department helped Blackwater spirit an employee out of Iraq less than 36 hours after the employee, while drunk, killed a bodyguard for one of Iraq’s two vice presidents on Christmas Eve.




If your family member was killed by the American mercenaries working for this company, who would you think were the terrorists? And we wonder why we are viewed the way we are by the rest of the world. You can be certain this is no isolated incident. There are probably a dozen or more companies like Blackwater in both Iraq and Afghanistan.

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