No mention in the first sentence how Blackwater employees were murdered in Iraq, set onfire, and then hanged on a bridge for public mocking.
Posted on 05/08/2009 12:51:17 PM PDT by La Enchiladita
BAGHDAD (AFP) — US security firm Blackwater ended its operations in Iraq on Thursday, closing a controversial era for the company whose guards shot dead 17 civilians in Baghdad in 2007.
"The task order for security protection operations held by Blackwater comes to an end today in Baghdad," American embassy spokeswoman Susan Ziadeh said, adding that Triple Canopy will replace it.
The US State Department on March 31 awarded Virginia-based Triple Canopy a contract reportedly worth nearly a billion dollars to take over protection of US government personnel in Iraq.
Linked agreements such as that for Presidential Airways, part of Blackwater that operates helicopter escorts throughout the country for secure air travel, will expire soon, Ziadeh added.
The State Department refused to renew annual contracts for Blackwater which renamed itself Xe after the Iraq government banned it in January over the killings in Baghdad's Nisur Square on September 16, 2007.
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The same people will be employed by Triple Canopy. There just aren’t any more people available with TS clearances and the experience to do the job.
No mention in the first sentence how Blackwater employees were murdered in Iraq, set onfire, and then hanged on a bridge for public mocking.
No. They don’t mention this until the VERY END of the article, almost as an afterthought!!!
The press long ago ceased to be human, but still they set new lows for themselves.
And you should have heard NPR gloating over this this morning.
What warcrimes trials have been held against the Iraqi military for our soldiers who were captured and executed with their pants pulled down?
There are plenty of middle eastern war crimes (not all of Michael Moore’s so called freedom fighters were from Iraq) against US civilians (Blackwater contractors were not military).
The media is disgusting and anti-American in their position.
An angry mob. No. There was hate. Xenophobic hate.
Hate seems to be their major source of fun.
Really evil, perverted creatures, the iraqi muzlims.
They raped women to intimidate them and to secure control on prisoners. They lopped off prisoners hands. All of that has been forgotten.
Ted Kennedy announced that Abu Ghraib had simply reopened under new management. Ted Kennedy committed treason in a time of war when he uttered that bit of aid and comfort to our enemy.
Yes, he and his quislings accused our son and his buddies of "terrorizing women and children and killing innocent civilians"; they said that the surge was not working (when they were fighting as part of the surge) and many more that I am just too enraged to even type out but you guys know.
I will never, never forget these slimeballs, ever. I will do everything in my power to bring them down off their ivory towers, to encourage investigations, indictments and trials and imprisonment of these traitors. Chances are slim to none of it ever coming to pass but I take comfort in that God is in control and He is not mocked.
These people with all their self-pride and arrogance will fall and fall into the hands of the living God and that causes me to shudder even in my rage.
Another “under-the-bus”. They never lost a client but did lose more than a few employees.
if Blackwater was headquartered in Johnstown, PA where they could keep greasing Jack Murtha, they’d still be there...
I guess I am naive and old fashioned, but I liked it when we did not hire outside contractors to protect our personnel and officials. One squad of Marines could do wonders!
Put some of them to work on the ships trying to get past the Somali pirates. Perfect job for Blackwater.
Amen!! Nothing makes me more livid than the clueless sheeple with their “peace” symbols. Clueless, they have no idea what it has taken to make this country great and preserve its greatness.
I believe their jobs were exclusively for the State Department... to augment diplomatic security in that department.
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