The Washington Post reports this morning that a Blackwater USA guard tried to stop the shooting, resorting to pointing his own weapon at fellow guards: Washington Post—Separately, a US official familiar with the investigation said that …
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Tthe recent reports of security firm Blackwater USA being thrown out of Iraq seemed curious, and I asked the question a while back — if Blackwater only has 1000 contractors on the ground in Iraq, why is the Department of Defense so …
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Article: Protest Grows over Blackwater USA Training Camp – “Blackwater USA, a security company that supplies hundreds of armed civilian personnel for duties in Iraq, is seeking to build a 220-acre training camp on an 800-acre parcel (in …
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WASHINGTON - Five cases this year in which private Blackwater USA security guards killed Iraqi civilians are at the core of a US review of how the hired protection forces guard diplomats in Iraq, officials said Friday. …
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has ordered a high level review board in Baghdad to look at five incidents were guards from North Carolina-based Blackwater USA killed civilians in Iraq this year.
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… you learn of yet another stonewalling effort to undermine Congress in their jurisdictional duty to learn the truth of companies, like Blackwater USA, said to have used inappropriate violence against citizens in Iraq! …
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