To: decimon
One minute later, we heard the sound of a bomb explosion followed by gunfire that lasted for 20 minutes between gunmen and the convoy
IED followed by attempted ambush of the convoy.
What's the problem? Sombodys "cousin" was in the ambush with the bad guys and got aired out?
2 posted on
09/17/2007 4:39:10 AM PDT by
TLI
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To: TLI
Keep in mind this is an AP story.
To: TLI
"What's the problem? Sombodys "cousin" was in the ambush with the bad guys and got aired out?" Ha! My first thought was a politician's nephew must have been splattered attacking that convoy.
83 posted on
09/17/2007 11:47:03 AM PDT by
Southack
(Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: TLI
What's the problem? Sombodys "cousin" was in the ambush with the bad guys and got aired out?
More like it's been building up for a while now. Some FReepers posted early this year that Blackwater had caused some problems for some US troops and I had read on private forum that some US military commanders were not happy with them. The implication was that Blackwater did something stupid and the locals tried to take it out on American troops.
To be honest, I've been uncomfortable with us relying more and more on contractors in Iraq for these kinds of functions. I understand that we don't have enough troops there to do everything (and I definitely understand that some of the duties that contractors handle, our troops would not have been trained for).
Still, Blackwater knew the rules, it wasn't like this came out of nowhere.
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