September 18, 2007

Would Blackwater Get Away with that in America?

Reacting to the most recent killing of civilians by Blackwater USA in Iraq, Baghdad resident Halim Mashkoor told AP Television News:
"We see the security firms ... doing whatever they want in the streets. They beat citizens and scorn them..." "If such a thing happened in America or Britain, would the American president or American citizens accept it?"

Yes. It happend with Blackwater in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

Sources:

Diplomatic convoys curtailed in Iraq, Associated Press, September 18, 2007.


Overkill: Feared Blackwater Mercenaries Deploy in New Orleans
, DemocracyNow, September 12th, 2005.

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