FBI finds Blackwater trucks patched

Tumbleweed · Black Ops Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 3687 votes: 3

This smells a lot like a cover-up to me.

WASHINGTON - Blackwater Worldwide repaired and repainted its trucks immediately after a deadly September shooting in Baghdad, making it difficult to determine whether enemy gunfire provoked the attack, according to people familiar with the government's investigation of the incident.

Damage to the vehicles in the convoy has been held up by Blackwater as proof that its security guards were defending themselves against an insurgent ambush when they fired into a busy intersection, leaving 17 Iraqi civilians dead.

U.S. military investigators initially found "no enemy activity involved" and the Iraqi government concluded the shootings were unprovoked.

The repairs essentially destroyed evidence that Justice Department investigators hoped to examine in a criminal case that has drawn worldwide attention. The Sept. 16 shooting has strained U.S. relations with the Iraqi government, which wants Blackwater expelled from the country. It also has become a flash point in the debate over whether contractors are immune from legal consequences for their actions in a war zone.

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Segep · Maintenance Man Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 775 votes: 4

I am so tired of coverups, and I'm especially tired of coverups that go unchallenged.

Kizzume · Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 3:11 pm Post subject:

I'm totally with you on that. I'm really sick of hearing about these types of things happening.
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Tumbleweed · Black Ops Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 3687 votes: 3

There aren't many officials willing to tackle the problem so there is very little accountability. In this case they very well could get away with murder, so to speak.

CHUQ · Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 3:03 am Post subject:

I agree all these cover ups are sickening, but we do have a Repub admin. Need I say more? What bothers me the most is that Blackwater is a private army, by every sense of the word Army. Burr was accused of treason when he tried gto raise a private army, but yet Blackwater is how ok. Why?
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