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Sunday, October 21, 2007
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Mercenaries can be like that sometimes
posted by
Clyde
6:33 AM
State Department Struggles To Oversee Private Army
Last Christmas Day in Baghdad, U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad received a furious phone call from Iraqi Vice President Adel Abdul Mahdi. An American -- drunk, armed, wandering through the Green Zone after a party -- had shot and killed one of his personal bodyguards the night before, Mahdi said. He wanted to see Khalilzad right away.
At the vice president's home, Khalilzad found the slain guard's family assembled. Mahdi demanded the names of the American and his employer. And he wanted the man turned over to the Iraqi government.
After consulting with the embassy's legal officer, Khalilzad identified the shooter as Andrew J. Moonen, an employee of Blackwater USA, the company that provides security for U.S. diplomats in Baghdad. But he would not deliver Moonen himself. Within 36 hours of the shooting, Blackwater and the embassy had shipped him out of the country.
"As you can imagine," the embassy's Diplomatic Security office said in an e-mail to its Washington headquarters the day of Moonen's departure, "this has serious implications."
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These neo-Nazis, masochistic, bastards have no God. They worship MONEY! They revel in pain and suffering. There will not be anything done to Blackwater.
They attack two year olds for seeking health care.
Until America is ready to admit the national religion is MONEY, war-mongering,union-busting and stolen elections will continue unabated. Next up, more pain, more suffering, stay tuned.
Live well under your overpass.
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at 2:21 PM |
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