Posted on 10/22/2014 10:59:45 AM PDT by Oliviaforever
Four former Blackwater security guards were found guilty Wednesday in the 2007 shootings of more than 30 Iraqis in Baghdad, and a federal judge ordered them immediately to jail.
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This sounds like something out of the movie Jack Reacher.
Political witchhunt.
“...charging a man with murder in this place was like handing out speeding tickets in the Indy 500.”
This is prosecution is insane, especially applying Gun charges to the “crime” as though they were not in a combat zone working for the State Department as SECURITY GUARDS! This Administration is insane.
And if they can do it to them, they can do it to us.
Then perhaps it is time to consider doing unto others before they do unto us.
. . .The Blackwater guards’ account of the incident differed from that set forth in an Iraqi government account. The latter claimed that as the convoy drew close to Nisour Square, a Kia sedan with a woman and her grown son in it was approaching the square from a distance, driving slowly on the wrong side of the road, and that the driver ignored a police officer's whistle to clear a path for the convoy.[16] According to this account, the security team fired warning shots and then lethal fire at the Kia. Then set off stun grenades to clear the scene. Iraqi police and Iraqi Army soldiers, mistaking the stun grenades for fragmentation grenades, opened fire at the Blackwater men, to which they responded.[17][18]
In the account by the Blackwater firm, it stated that the driver of the Kia sedan had kept driving toward the convoy, ignoring verbal orders, hand signals, and water bottles which were thrown at the car, and continued to approach even when fired upon. An Iraqi policeman went over to the car possibly to help the passenger, but the vehicle kept moving and it looked to the guards as if the policeman was pushing it. In their view, this confirmed that they were under attack by a vehicle bomb, whereupon they fired at the car, killing both people in it as well as the Iraqi policeman.[19] In response to the guards’ killing of the Iraqi policemen, other Iraqi police officers began to fire at the Blackwater men. Since insurgents in Iraq often disguise themselves by wearing police uniforms, the guards could not be sure they were dealing with actual police. . .
Why would a U.S. court have jurisdiction on an alleged crime(s) committed 6000 miles away and against non U.S. citizens?
Despicable! Prayers up for these brave warriors.
The b.s. piled up so fast, you needed wings to stay above it
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