2010年11月19日金曜日

The 'roles' of the Iraqi conflict BLACKWATER THE DIRTY WAR Mercenaries security despised civilian life

Los 'papeles' del conflicto iraquí LA GUERRA SUCIA DE BLACKWATER

Los mercenarios de la seguridad despreciaban la vida de los civiles

M. P. - Madrid - 24/10/2010
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/mercenarios/seguridad/despreciaban/vida/civiles/elpepuint/20101024elpepiint_5/Tes

The 'roles' of the Iraqi conflict BLACKWATER THE DIRTY WARMercenaries security despised civilian life
M. P. - Madrid - 24/10/2010
Were the other army, the armed wing of the invasion that was not subject to the same rules as the soldiers of the international forces. The tens of thousands of mercenaries from Blackwater, the largest U.S. security company in Iraq, were the symbol of the privatization of a conflict that contributed to the margin of international law. Since the September 16, 2007. While escorting a diplomatic convoy in central Baghdad, a suspected insurgent attack, the guards opened fire with assault weapons and grenade launchers, killing 17 Iraqi civilians.
But Square massacre Nisour Baghdad may not be the only one of which was stained Blackwater. Among the nearly 400,000 Iraqi papers, there are at least 14 that relate to how the contractors opened fire on civilians, killing 10 and wounding seven others. According to the analysis of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, one of the media that gave Wikileaks files, some of the cases occurred before September 2007 and through the escort services by U.S. diplomats that the company claimed more than $ 465 million. A file dated May 14, 2005 relates that a Blackwater unit fired on a civilian vehicle, killing the driver and wounding his wife and son. On another occasion, the guards opened fire on an ambulance arrived at the place where he had exploded an improvised explosive device (IED, its acronym in English). The bullets killed a civilian.
In early 2010, a federal judge dismissed charges against only five accused of killing Nisour Square on the grounds that the testimony of mercenaries, shortly after the incident, were obtained under the condition that they not be used against them. It seems difficult for the new revelations have now a different destination.

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