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Blackwater in New Orleans

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Let's go back a little ways to a lecture by Jeremy Scahill on Blackwater and other mercenaries in New Orleans during Katrina. He mentions how a Blackwater employee bragged about wasting some black gang-bangers on an overpass. Or was he just confusing them with "Hajis" in Iraq?

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How many poor and desperate Blacks might have been shot by mercenaries in New Orleans during the awful days of Katrina. When America should have been outpouring compassion toward these people, FEMA and Homeland Security were hiring guns to defend flooded-out businesses from already stricken citizens or to protect the property of the rich. FEMA couldn't get doctors down there with any speed, but they sure could get mercs!

Rumors continue to surface that scores of citizens, perhaps hundreds or even more, were gunned down by Blackwater and its cousins in yet more turkey shoots, a term bandied about cynically in Iraq. What is needed now, though, is solid evidence. If you have any, bring it out.

 

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BLACKWATER : THE CRUSADE by JF William on Tuesday, Jun 3, 2008 at 7:28:39 AM
Good Stuff by Mac McKinney on Tuesday, Jun 3, 2008 at 8:43:35 AM
My pleasure have some more then ;) by JF William on Tuesday, Jun 3, 2008 at 12:47:22 PM
Good Stuff by Mac McKinney on Tuesday, Jun 3, 2008 at 8:43:43 AM
Confirmed by Georgianne Nienaber on Tuesday, Jun 3, 2008 at 8:44:20 AM