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| Iraq |
| US Blackwaters boss accused of Crusader beliefs |
| 2009-08-09 |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] The U.S. security firm formerly known as Blackwater faced new damaging allegations about its behavior in Iraq Friday after two former employees accused the firm's president of seeking to "wipe out Muslims and Islam" as part of his crusade in Iraq, U.S. weekly magazine The Nation reported Friday. And we know just how above-board The Nation is ... The former employees claimed in sworn affidavits lodged in a Virginia court that their boss Erik D. Prince "views himself as a Christian crusader tasked with eliminating Muslims and the Islamic faith from the globe," the oldest U.S. weekly magazine reported. Allegations made against Prince by the employees whose identities were kept secret also included weapons smuggling and the deliberate slaughter of civilians. One employee said Prince's company "encouraged and rewarded the destruction of Iraqi life," and claimed Prince used aliases referring to the crusading Knights of the Templarm, a notorious Christian military order known for its militant activities in Muslim lands during the Crusades in 1099 and declined in the 1100s. "Mr. Prince intentionally deployed to Iraq certain men who shared his vision of Christian supremacy, knowing and wanting these men to take every available opportunity to murder Iraqis," the other former employee claimed. "Many of these men used call signs based on the Knights of the Templar, the warriors who fought the Crusades." The allegations surfaced in pre-trial motions in an Eastern District of Virginia civil lawsuit brought on behalf of Iraqi civilians by Susan Burke, a private attorney working in conjunction with the Center for Constitutional Rights. In another sworn statement, a former U.S. Marine who worked for Blackwater said he observed "multiple incidents of Blackwater personnel intentionally using unnecessary, excessive and unjustified deadly force." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 Heck...As far as I can tell, shias and sunnis have killed millions more of each other than any crusader....all in the precious name of allanTM, of course. |
| Posted by: anymouse 2009-08-09 21:45 |
| #3 The allegations surfaced in pre-trial motions Behold the fine art of rhetoric as practiced in most east coast universities. Couch something that is not illegal in such terms to cast it as something evil the courts must deal with. BTW, Here is the original complaint and if you read it the way I do, you come to two quick likelihoods: 1) Booze and guns; not a good mix. 2) An overprotective employer; not exactly a federal tort the last time I checked. The "human rights" nature of the lawsuit mostly means these lawyers will drag it as long as they can,or until their money runs out, my best guess is option two, but ya never know. And with the imprimatur of The Nation, you know their version of this story is jam-packed with boolsh*t. |
| Posted by: badanov 2009-08-09 12:39 |
| #2 A notorious Christian military order? That's hilarious. |
| Posted by: Whaviling Borgia5650 2009-08-09 11:32 |
| #1 Such Bull$hit. NSDQ |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2009-08-09 00:55 |