By: Stewart Brennan
George Bush gave Condoleezza Rice the task of extending diplomatic immunity to the Blackwater SS agents who killed 17 innocent people in Iraq last month. Washington wants to sweep this unprovoked shooting incident in Iraq under the table and protect Blackwater from any fall out. I say, kill this terrorist organization called Blackwater NOW! Smash their ability to hurt another soul on this planet and seize their assets and suspend their permits to carry guns.
Bush wants to keep his Secret Security called Blackwater free from prosecution and have extended government protection and immunity to a bunch of thugs and criminals. If the American Congress allows this to be swept under the table, then all the people of the World will see your country as an untrustworthy EVIL empire capable of the worst horrors.
Trust is the basis of any friendship, and the USA has betrayed every nation on the Planet by stating that Blackwater operatives are above the law. The Blackwater terrorists are running amok and are out of control. Its time to shut them down!!!
Can YOU claim diplomatic immunity for shooting and killing people?
Blackwater: The American Terrorist Organization
http://worldunitednews.blogspot.ca/2007/10/blackwater-american-terrorist.htmlWashington Post Article: Immunity Jeopardizes Iraq Probe
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/29/AR2007102901266.html?wpisrc=newsletter
Washington Post Article (Oct 31st, 2007): Senior Democrats Want Blackwater Case Details
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/30/AR2007103000423_Comments.html
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UPDATE:
2014 – Oct 23
Guilty as
charged: Blackwater guards convicted for 2007 Iraq shooting
Source: Russia Today
http://youtu.be/qUNCgzXNDOM-----------------------------------
UPDATE: 2015 April 13
Emails reveal US officials undermining Blackwater case
Former Blackwater security guards, from left: Paul A.
Slough, Dustin L. Heard, Nicholas A. Slatten and Evan S. Liberty.
Source: Press TV
The FBI agents have found out that senior officials in the
US Justice Department intentionally attempted to undermine the case of
Blackwater security guards’ fatal shooting of Iraqi civilians in 2007, internal
emails revealed.
The FBI has planned to charge the American contractors with
crimes, including weapons charges, manslaughter and attempted manslaughter that
could send them to prison for the rest of their lives.
Several emails, obtained by the New York Times, however,
revealed that the department’s senior officials were against the move and
sought to drop some of the charges in an effort to lighten the sentences.
In September 2007, Blackwater security guards opened fire on
unarmed Iraqi people near a bustling traffic circle with machine guns and grenade
into Baghdad’s crowded Nisour Square, killing at least 17 people and wounding
several others.
In December 2008, as the Justice Department prepared to ask
a grand jury to vote on an indictment, the lead FBI agent, John Patarini
received an email from Kenneth Kohl, a federal prosecutor who had written, “We
are getting some serious resistance from our office to charging the defendants
with mandatory minimum time.”
Patarini, however, replied, “I would rather not present for
a vote now and wait until the new administration takes office than to get an
indictment that is an insult to the individual victims, the Iraqi people as a
whole, and the American people who expect their Justice Department to act
better than this.”
He also forwarded it to colleagues and superiors.
Four former Blackwater contractors are scheduled to be
sentenced at a federal court on Monday. Dustin L. Heard, Evan S. Liberty,
Nicholas A. Slatten and Paul A. Slough were convicted at trial in October.
The Department is seeking sentences of 57 years for Slough,
51 years for Liberty, 47 years for Heard and life in prison without parole for
Slatten.
Last week, federal prosecutors wrote in court documents that
“the crimes here were so horrendous — the massacre and maiming of innocents so
heinous — that they outweigh any factors that the defendants may argue form a
basis for leniency.”
An FBI supervisor, Andrew McCabe, encouraged top FBI
officials to continue with the case, saying the Justice Department was
“delaying and reducing” the indictment.
“This is the latest in what has become a troubling habit by
DOJ,” he wrote.
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Well it seems that free speech has prevailed. The Washington Post has opened the topic up for debate and comment. Thank you! It is important to see how others are feeling about Blackwater and their “Black Death”. Get loud and vociferous people, and take action against an evil empire and its storm troopers.
ReplyDeleteSeven years later, Blackwater Guards found guilty of Massacre in Iraq...but the executives and the US Government get out of jail free...the people will not rest until Eric Prince, Bush & Cheney are behind bars at the very least! - http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/10/22/seven-years-later-blackwater-guards-found-guilty-massacre-iraq
ReplyDeleteTrump Pardons Blackwater War Criminals
ReplyDeleteSource: RT News
Trump ‘killed justice’ with pardon of ‘war criminals’: Twitter erupts with disgust as Blackwater contractors walk free
https://www.rt.com/usa/510524-outrage-trump-pardon-blackwater/
Donald Trump’s decision to pardon four Blackwater contractors involved in the 2007 slaughter of Iraqi civilians was met with a tsunami of anger and resentment online from people calling it a travesty of justice.
President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday evening that he is issuing 15 full pardons and commuting the punishments of five convicts to time served. Four of the people given clemency were former employees of the infamous private military company Blackwater.
They were serving lengthy prison terms, including a life sentence in one case, for the Nisour Square massacre, one of the most notorious episodes in the US’ military engagement in Iraq.
Blackwater ‘war criminals,’ Russiagate ‘collateral victims’ & Congress ‘crooks’ among 15 pardons announced by Trump
https://www.rt.com/usa/510488-trump-pardons-blackwater-russiagate/
Seventeen Iraqi civilians, including one child, were killed in the crowded Baghdad square in September 2007, after the US contractors opened fire on people with machine guns, sniper rifles, and grenade launchers. The investigation concluded that at least 14 of them were killed without any reason. The unprovoked attack was carried out by Blackwater guards who were escorting a US Embassy convoy and allegedly thought they had been ambushed.
After a protracted legal process, four people were sentenced to various prison terms. Nicholas Slatten, who was accused of opening fire first and triggering the attack on civilians, received a life sentence.
The news that all four convicts will now walk free, their punishments considered enough, was met with much anger, as public figures and ordinary commenters lashed out at Trump’s decision. Glenn Kirschner, a former US Army prosecutor who is now a legal analyst with MSNBC, said the president “killed justice” with his pardons.
Mark Hertling, a retired general who was involved in the 2007-08 troop surge, called the move “the most egregious and disgusting” of Trump’s actions. Politician Richard Ojeda, a retired mayor, said Blackwater contractors in Iraq were a bunch of “cowboys” who “caused trouble for us, active duty troops.”
Representative Ilhan Omar called the pardoned contractors “mercenaries” and “war criminals,” whose release “will leave a dark mark on the history of presidential pardons.”
Many commenters posted reminders of who the victims of the massacre were.
https://twitter.com/adamnlawyer/status/1341577554382249997
https://twitter.com/justinjm1/status/1341537642408718336
Others pointed out that securing the convictions of the four perpetrators was a difficult challenge for the justice system, and that the efforts were apparently wasted by the pardons.
Some said that while Trump’s pardon was appalling, people should keep in mind that he was not the one who launched the 2003 Iraq invasion in the first place. George W. Bush and other architects of the war are now a respectable part of the bipartisan establishment in the US.
Supporters of the former contractors had been arguing that the men had been excessively punished and that their prosecution was tainted. “Paul Slough and his colleagues didn’t deserve to spend one minute in prison,” Brian Heberlig, a lawyer for one of the four pardoned defendants, said of the news. “I am overwhelmed with emotion at this fantastic news.”
In 2007, Blackwater was headed by Eric Prince, the brother of Trump’s secretary of education, Betsy DeVos. He resigned and divested from the firm after the scandal over the massacre erupted. The company itself went through a series of re-brandings. Last year, Prince lobbied the Trump administration to replace US troops in Afghanistan with thousands of mercenaries.