Blackwater USA, a Moyock, N.C.-based company, has been implicated in six other incidents over the past seven months, including a Feb. 7 shooting outside Iraqi state television in Baghdad in which three building guards were fatally shot.
Other incidents include: a Sept. 9 shooting in front of Baghdad's municipal government building that killed five people and wounded 10; a Sept. 12 shooting that wounded five on the capital's Palestine Street; a Feb. 4 shooting near the Foreign Ministry, in which Iraqi journalist Hana al-Ameedi died; a May shooting near the Interior Ministry that claimed the life of a passer-by and a Feb. 14 incident in which Blackwater employees allegedly smashed windshields by throwing bottles of ice water at cars.
These six cases support the case against Blackwater, because they show that it has a criminal record. However, Blackwater contractors (mercenaries) enjoy immunity from law in Iraq and in our country, and are accountable to no one. Some day they will be coming for you and me. This is what these Republicans are doing to our country.
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