Iraqi adviser: Blackwater shooting unprovoked, guards must go – CNN.com

Blackwater, a company of mercenaries, without rules of engagement. Frustrating that modern day Hessians have emerged. This is not an American problem, the world has let it happen. I fear a resurgence of the Middle Ages and the Crusades, bloody murder based upon idealism and money.

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki asked the U.S. State Department to “pull Blackwater out of Iraq,” after an Iraqi probe concluded that the private contractors committed unprovoked and random killings in a September 16 shooting, an adviser to al-Maliki told CNN.art.blackwater.car.afp.gi.jpgA man bicycles past a car on September 20 that was damaged during the September 16 Blackwater shootings.But in Washington, State Department spokesman Tom Casey said the department has received “no specific request” from Iraq to withdraw the company’s contractors.

Iraqi adviser: Blackwater shooting unprovoked, guards must go – CNN.com

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