Flushing Blackwater

TruthOut, The Nation by Jeremy Scahill | Sep. 3, 2009 (News)

In addition, Blackwater is being investigated by the Justice Department for possible crimes ranging from weapons smuggling to manslaughter and by the IRS for possible tax evasion. It is being sued in federal courts by scores of Iraqi civilians for alleged war crimes and extrajudicial killings. Two of its men have pleaded guilty to weapons-smuggling charges; another pleaded guilty to the unprovoked manslaughter of an Iraqi civilian, and five others have ... Full Story »

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Dwight Rousu
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 by Dwight Rousu - Sep. 1, 2009

Scahill continues being one of the few who is reporting on the theocratic warlords who are being paid to kill from our tax dollars. Knowledgeable and suitably alarmed.

The double entendre in "flushing blackwater" is good.

Blackwater is but one fruit on the poisonous tree of military outsourcing. It is imperative that Congress confront the intimate linking of corporate profits to US wars and lethal, covert operations.

Prince murdered or facilitated the murder of potential government informants and that he “views himself as a Christian crusader tasked with eliminating Muslims and the Islamic faith from the globe.”

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