September 2007 I had the opportunity to ask Andrew Horne about Blackwater and his answer was chilling.
The Nation Blackwater Founder Implicated in Murder A former Blackwater employee and an ex-US Marine who has worked as a security operative for the company have made a series of explosive allegations in sworn statements filed on August 3 in federal court in Virginia. The two men claim that the company's owner, Erik Prince, may have murdered or facilitated the murder of individuals who were cooperating with federal authorities investigating the company. The former employee also alleges that Prince "views himself as a Christian crusader tasked with eliminating Muslims and the Islamic faith from the globe," and that Prince's companies "encouraged and rewarded the destruction of Iraqi life." Read more.
In the aftermath of Katrina A judge handed down the maximum sentence allowed by law to three folks for
looting a grocery store. Coralnelle Little, 36, Rhonda McGowen, 42, and Paul C.
Pearson, 36, received 15-year sentences from Judge Hans
Liljeberg of the 24th Judicial District Court, said he
wanted to send a message to looters that the crime would not
be tolerated. A jury convicted the
three for attempting to leave the store with 27 bottles of liquor and wine, six cases of
beer and a case of wine coolers, six days after Katrina made
landfall. Another case of Justice for regular folks, but how do we administer justice for the rich, famous and folks with political pull?
Bernie Madoff accused of ripping off folks of billions is at home living the high life.
Hillbilly Report Glendale, Kentucky Ditch Mitch KY. Barefoot And
Progressive Page One James Pence Videos President Bush vetoed a bill blocking Medicare and Tricare pay cuts to doctors,
but congress tells him to go to Hell and overrides the veto. The House of
Representatives voted overwhelmingly by a
383-41
vote to override President Bush’s veto and the Senate vote was
70-26. Senators Mitch McConnell and Jim Bunning continued to show their disdain
for seniors and the military and voted to uphold the George Bush' veto! This time next year I hope George W. Bush is living on his
100,000 acres in Paraguay because he won't be welcomed here in
the United States by seniors like me! He can hire
Blackwater to protect him from the International Courts that will surely
indict him for crimes
against humanity, and George will find a good supply of
cocaine in Paraguay to sniff up his nose and plenty of room to go hunting
with "Shotgun" Dick Cheney!
I can't wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A House panel reveals a letter telling the firm not to disclose information
about its Iraq operations without the administration's OK. By
Peter Spiegel, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON -- The State Department has interceded in a congressional
investigation of Blackwater USA, the private security firm accused of killing
Iraqi civilians last week, ordering the company not to disclose information
about its Iraq operations without approval from the Bush administration,
according to documents revealed Tuesday.
In a letter sent to a senior Blackwater executive Thursday, a State
Department contracting official ordered the company "to make no disclosure of
the documents or information" about its work in Iraq without permission.
The letter and other documents were released Tuesday by Rep. Henry A.
Waxman (D-Los Angeles), whose House committee has launched wide-ranging
investigations into contractor abuses and corruption in Iraq.
The State Department order and other steps it has taken to limit
congressional access to information have set up a confrontation between
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Waxman, who has repeatedly accused the
State Department of impeding his inquiries.
In his own letter to Rice on Tuesday, Waxman called her department's
latest efforts to withhold information from the committee "extraordinary" and
"unusual."
"Congress has the constitutional prerogative to examine the impacts of
corruption within the Iraqi ministries and the activities of Blackwater," Waxman
wrote. "You are wrong to interfere with the committee's inquiry." Read
more.
Hillbilly Report Glendale, Kentucky September 17, 2007 www.hillbillyreport.com www.ditchmitchky.com Will Senator Mitch McConnell condemn the Blackwater killings, or will he
continue to betray us and allow corporate America to kill anyone they desire?
What about it Mitch?
Iraq Revokes License of U.S. Contractor
Blackwater
Interior Ministry accuses the firm's security employees of killing eight
civilians. By
Ned Parker, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
10:34 AM PDT, September 17, 2007 BAGHDAD -- Iraq's Interior Ministry
canceled the license of controversial American security firm Blackwater USA
today after Iraqi officials charged that eight civilians were shot by company
bodyguards accompanying a U.S. State Department motorcade the day before in
Baghdad.
A Read More.
Blackwater Guards Accused of Past Deaths By
DEBORAH HASTINGS
NEW YORK (AP) — In the past year, employees of the Blackwater USA security
firm have been involved in other incidents in which they were accused of killing
civilians and security forces in Iraq.
On Dec. 24, 2006, a drunken Blackwater employee shot and killed a
bodyguard for Iraq's Shiite vice president, Adel Abdul-Mahdi, according to Iraqi
and U.S. officials.
The contractor had gotten lost on the way back to his barracks in the
Green Zone and fired at least seven times when he was confronted by 30-year-old
Raheem Khalaf Saadoun, an official in the vice president's office said on
condition of anonymity because the case is still under investigation.
The contractor fled after the incident. Eventually, he made his way to the
U.S. Embassy, where Blackwater officials arranged to have him flown home to the
U.S., said American officials.
Blackwater spokeswoman Anne Tyrrell said earlier this year the company was
cooperating with investigators from the Justice Department and the FBI. She
declined to provide further details.
In May, Blackwater guards under contract to the State Department were
involved in two other shootings in Iraq.
In one, a Blackwater guard shot to death an Iraqi deemed to be driving too
close to a security detail near the Interior Ministry in Baghdad, enraging
Iraqis. At the time, Tyrrell said the guard acted lawfully and appropriately,
given the incident reports and witness accounts.
A day earlier, Blackwater guards and Interior Ministry forces exchanged
gunfire on the streets of the capital. A passing U.S. military convoy intervened
and stopped the fighting.
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