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2007-09-22 Iraq

Feds probe Blackwater arms smuggling, sale to PKK

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Posted by lotp 2007-09-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Force them to sell their equipment to our Military in Iraq, investigate them legally, Where is wackenhut?

If you cannot run an arms room, you cannot run security.

Posted by newc">newc 2007-09-22 01:00|| 2007-09-22 01:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Not. Good. If convicted, this should end their work in Iraq and elsewhere.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-09-22 01:13|| 2007-09-22 01:13|| Front Page Top

#3 I smell a Turkish rat here. Blackwater may or may not have smuggled weapons in Iraq. But smuggling guns into Iraq wouldn't appear to be a high profit enterprise. For them then to end up in the hands of the PKK strikes me as unlikely.

The Turks have a history of manufactured incidents conveniently blamed on the Kurds. At a guess I'd say the Turks bought the weapons in Iraq. Shipped them back to Turkey amd then found them on Kurds.

Posted by phil_b 2007-09-22 07:52|| 2007-09-22 07:52|| Front Page Top

#4 A little side business going on I bet, wihtout corporate involvment. And its entirely plausible that their middlemen told them it was for teh Pashmerga, and they then rerouted to the PKK. Asode from that, screw the Turks. They havent helped us, and have been more of a hinderence - starting back in the original invastion (one of the reasons we have had such a ahard tiem of it was the 4th ID was slated for the SUnni Triangle and was not allowed to enter via Turkey), and continuign with their racist supression of the Kurds. And now they are going Islamist. I'd arm the PKK and let them run wild in N Iran and E turkey, and remind the Turks that their actions (and inaction) have a price.

Posted by OldSpook 2007-09-22 09:40|| 2007-09-22 09:40|| Front Page Top

#5 I seem to recall reading there were problems with Iraqi Army and Police recruits selling the weapons they'd been issued. Could there be a connection?

Posted by trailing wife 2007-09-22 17:49|| 2007-09-22 17:49|| Front Page Top

#6 That's strange. One would think that they would have effective controls to prevent this.

Posted by McZoid 2007-09-22 20:33|| 2007-09-22 20:33|| Front Page Top

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