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2004-04-09 Iraq-Jordan

Blackwater contractors were lured into an ambush by ICDC members

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Posted by Zhang Fei 2004-04-09 5:28:40 PM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 With thousands of private security employees now guarding supply lines, buildings and reconstruction projects â and with thousands more on the way â they are increasingly being drawn into firefights and other combat situations that traditionally have been left to the military.

More of that prime NYT horse manure. Right. Just like the police back in the states help guard payroll deliveries. Not.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2004-04-09 5:34:54 PM|| 2004-04-09 5:34:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Thirteen Democratic senators â including the Democratic leader, Tom Daschle; Carl Levin, the senior Democrat on the Armed Services Committee; and the vice chairman of the Intelligence Committee, John D. Rockefeller IV â called for Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld to provide "an accurate tally" of the privately armed non-Iraqi security personnel in Iraq

worried they may help prevent the quagmire Kerry needs for the election? Bastards!

Posted by Frank G 2004-04-09 6:08:36 PM|| 2004-04-09 6:08:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Frank -- sounds like the Democrats are following the lead of their favorite loon, Kos. No doubt they think the "mercenary" crap is something they can turn into an issue.

Never mind that outsourcing military functions was (as I understand it) a part of Algore's "Re-engineering Government" crap.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-04-09 7:38:11 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/] 2004-04-09 7:38:11 PM|| Front Page Top

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