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Blackwater Reportedly Authorized Secret Payments to Iraqi Officials
FoxNews ^ | 11/10/2009

Posted on 11/12/2009 4:30:37 AM PST by darkness78

Top executives at Blackwater secretly approved $1 million for Iraqi officials to keep quiet after the company's security guards killed 17 Iraqi civilians in September 2007, The New York Times reports.

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1 posted on 11/12/2009 4:30:37 AM PST by darkness78
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To: darkness78

>in September 2007, The New York Times reports.

More anti US crap by the Times. Anything to keep from reporting on the rat failures occurring by the second right now. Fox should just leave this crap on the floor and report on real issues.

Starve the left.


2 posted on 11/12/2009 4:53:45 AM PST by soycd
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To: darkness78

The whole story could be a lie — it’s the NY Times. However, maybe the real story is ‘blackwater reached a million-dollar settlement in the killing of 17 civilians, to avoid further criminal or civil liability. The details of the settlement were sealed’.

That happens every day here in the USA.


3 posted on 11/12/2009 5:22:33 AM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: darkness78

Iraqi officials have far too much integrity to accept any sort of bribe or unofficial secret payment.


4 posted on 11/12/2009 6:57:10 AM PST by Eagle Eye (3%)
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To: soycd

Maybe, but it’s kind of tough to consider that we have to hide some facts in order to make the real world look better.

I am not sure that this is the right way to improve this world and the situation in Iraq. Maybe this is why FoxNews decided to report this.

Hiding the truth never served anything good.


5 posted on 11/12/2009 7:47:44 AM PST by darkness78 (y)
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