Iraq Contractor in Shooting Case Makes Comeback

[ellen_datlow]

Blackwater is back and I'm disgusted (once more) by the Bush administration:

WASHINGTON — Last fall, Blackwater Worldwide was in deep peril. Guards for the security company were involved in a shooting in September that left at least 17 Iraqis dead at a Baghdad intersection. Outrage over the killings prompted the Iraqi government to demand Blackwater’s ouster from the country, and led to a criminal investigation by the F.B.I., a series of internal investigations by the State Department and the Pentagon, and high-profile Congressional hearings.

But after an intense public and private lobbying campaign, Blackwater appears to be back to business as usual.


Thanks to surricatus

Comments

[sarcobatus.livejournal.com]

Oh, don't even get me started on government contractors!

Talk about the assholes of evil!

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

I'd love to be able to DO something about it!

[sarcobatus.livejournal.com]

Without going into detail, my husband and I had a brush with a govenment contractor and tried to do something about it. We lost.

[onemoreshadow.livejournal.com]

Makes me think of Ravenwood in the TV show Jericho. Government contractors that turn into mercenaries after a nuclear attack on the U.S., and then back into contractors once things start to settle down, with complete immunity for everything they did. A frightening series mainly because I could see so much of it happening in real life.