2 Iraqi women killed by convoy guards
By Sinan Salaheddin / Associated Press BAGHDAD - Guards in a security convoy opened fire on a car at an intersection in central Baghdad on Tuesday, killing two Iraqi Christian women, police said. The State Department said the convoy was not protecting U.S. diplomats, but an embassy spokeswoman said an ...
Blackwater foes begin fight with their feet
Marchers oppose plan for Potrero By Anne Krueger / San Diego Union-Tribune EAST COUNTY – Wearing a bright green “Stop Blackwater” T-shirt, Rep. Bob Filner urged about 200 protesters yesterday to keep up their fight against Blackwater USA's plans to build a military and law enforcement training center in the ...
Blackwater portrayed as out of control
By Richard Lardner / Associated Press WASHINGTON - Blackwater USA is an out-of-control outfit indifferent to Iraqi civilian casualties, according to a critical report released Monday by a key congressional committee. Among the most serious charges against the prominent security firm is that Blackwater contractors sought to cover up a ...
Blackwater usually fired first in Iraq: lawmaker
By Sue Pleming / Reuters WASHINGTON - U.S. security contractor Blackwater has been involved in at least 195 shooting incidents in Iraq since 2005 and, in eight of 10 cases, their forces fired first, a leading U.S. lawmaker said on Monday. State Department contractor Blackwater, under investigation for the shooting ...
Blackwater guards fired unprovoked: Iraq police evidence
WASHINGTON (AFP) — Iraqi investigators have evidence that US private guards fired unprovoked on Iraqis in a deadly Baghdad shoot-out, a magazine said Sunday, citing a police report countering claims that they shot in self-defense. A convoy of the Blackwater private security firm's vehicles "opened fire crazily and randomly, without ...
Lawmaker says Rice interfered with Iraq inquiry
By Sue Pleming / Reuters WASHINGTON - A leading Democratic lawmaker on Tuesday accused Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice of interfering in congressional inquiries into corruption in Iraq's government and the activities of U.S. security firm Blackwater. Democratic Rep. Henry Waxman said State Department officials had told the Oversight and ...
Blackwater Security Firm Embroiled In New Controversy
Iraq Revokes License, Company Claims Report 'Inaccurate' NBC San Diego SAN DIEGO -- Blackwater USA, the controversial security firm that has plans to build a training facility in San Diego County, has had its operating license revoked by the Iraqi government. Blackwater is hoping to build a military-type training center ...
AP Interview: Romney says he's not the only one switching positions, rivals do it too
By Liz Sidoti / Associated Press Republican Mitt Romney on Thursday defended his series of shifts on issues, arguing that his top rivals for the GOP presidential nomination also have histories of switching positions. "I served as governor for four years and my record is consistent and clear," the former ...
Protest grows over training camp
BLACKWATER USA SEEKS RURAL SITE FOR PROJECT By Tony Perry / Los Angeles Times POTRERO, CALIF. — With its isolation and rustic ambience, this sparsely populated hamlet in eastern San Diego County offers the privacy and quiet its residents crave. "It's perfect: nobody here but us rural souls," Will Lee ...
2 bombs kill 5 U.S. soliders in Iraq
By Kim Gamel / Associated Press BAGHDAD - Roadside bombs killed five U.S. soldiers in Iraq Sunday, including four in a single strike in a volatile province northeast of the capital, the military said. In Baghdad, gunmen on rooftops opened fire on Iraqi soldiers, prompting fierce fighting in the narrow ...
'White Hot Rage' ...by Cindy Sheehan
I have long suspected that Blackwater Security and L. Paul Bremer (what’s his nickname? Scooter? Pookie?) were responsible for the insurgency in Iraq and subsequently the death of my son, Casey. I am reading Jeremy Scahill’s new book: Blackwater and it is doing nothing to decrease my suspicions, only confirm ...
'Mission Tragically Accomplished' ...by Cindy Sheehan
When pilot-boy, George landed on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln, which was moored a few miles from San Diego on May 1st, 2003, he declared an “end” to major combat in Iraq. Imagine, even after all of the havoc already wreaked in Iraq, how relieved that I, a ...
Nearly 800 contractors killed in Iraq
By Michelle Roberts / Associated Press In a largely invisible cost of the war in Iraq, nearly 800 civilians working under contract to the Pentagon have been killed and more than 3,300 hurt doing jobs normally handled by the U.S. military, according to figures gathered by The Associated Press. Exactly ...
'Money Trumps Peace...Sometimes' ...by Cindy Sheehan
It is always painful to watch George stumble his way through press conferences. He can't get through a sentence without at least two-three "uhs," his eye lids flutter up and down in what my daughter, Carly, calls the "liar's blink" and just because it is painful that a human like ...
Another U.S. helicopter lost in Iraq
By Bassem Mroue / Associated Press BAGHDAD, Iraq - A U.S. Army helicopter crashed Friday in a hail of gunfire north of Baghdad, police and witnesses said — the fourth lost in Iraq in the last two weeks. The U.S. command said two crew members were killed, and the top ...
3 helicopters lost in Iraq since Jan. 20
By Robert H. Reid / Associated Press BAGHDAD, Iraq - Three helicopters have been lost in Iraq in the past 10 days, including one over the weekend. While insurgents and militias have plenty of weapons capable of shooting down helicopters, the U.S. has developed tactics to minimize the risk, and ...
Helicopter Down in Baghdad; 5 Killed
Helicopter of U.S. Security Company Goes Down in Baghdad; 5 Civilians Killed By Kim Gamel / Associated Press BAGHDAD, Iraq - A helicopter owned by the private security firm Blackwater USA crashed Tuesday in central Baghdad, killing five civilians on board, U.S. military officials said. A senior Iraqi defense official ...
Census counts 100,000 contractors in Iraq
Number is 10 times that in first Gulf War, far more than previous estimate By Renae Merle / Washington Post There are about 100,000 government contractors operating in Iraq, not counting subcontractors, a total that is approaching the size of the U.S. military force there, according to the military's first ...
Contractors Rarely Held Responsible for Misdeeds in Iraq
By Griff Witte / Washington Post The list of alleged contractor misdeeds in Iraq has grown long in the past 3 1/2 years. Yet when it comes to holding companies accountable, the charges seldom stick. Critics say that because of legal loopholes, flaws in the contracting process, a lack of ...
In Iraq, contractor deaths near 650, legal fog thickens
By Bernd Debusmann / Reuters WASHINGTON - The war in Iraq has killed at least 647 civilian contractors to date, according to official figures that provide a stark reminder of the huge role of civilians in supporting the U.S. military. The contractor death toll is tracked by the U.S. Department ...
9/11 Panel Members Werenâ??t Told of Meeting
By Philip Shenon / New York Times WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 — Members of the Sept. 11 commission said today that they were alarmed that they were told nothing about a White House meeting in July 2001 at which George J. Tenet, then the director of central intelligence, is reported to ...
On Sunday, September 17, Camp Democracy will be holding impeachment teaching all day on the mall in Washington D.C. By Dan DeWalt, author of the Newfane, Vermont impeachment resolution / Impeach the President George W. Bush is a liar. By his lies that convinced the nation to go to war ...
By Jeremy Scahill / The Nation While the Bush Administration calls for the immediate disbanding of what it has labeled "private" and "illegal" militias in Lebanon and Iraq, it is pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into its own global private mercenary army tasked with protecting US officials and institutions ...
"Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow up to be Soldiers"
By Cindy Sheehan As of today, the War Department lists 2544 as the number of unjustly murdered troops in Iraq. Dozens of innocent Iraqis are being killed due to the war crime every day. Over 80 Iraqis were killed in Baghdad alone on July 9th: dozens of people just in ...
Mothers become close after sons die in Iraq
On the 2nd anniversary of the fatal ambush, the women raise awareness about civilian deaths By Stephen Hudak / Orlando Sentinel Strangers two years ago, the mothers are as close as sisters now. Katy Helvenston-Wettengel of Leesburg and Donna Zovko of Cleveland found each other after each lost a son ...
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