This should come as no surprise, but Blackwater is back at work in Iraq. The US government is allowing Blackwater operations “limited to essential missions only outside Baghdad’s heavily-fortified Green Zone.” This is being done in consultation with the Iraqi government, according to the BBC. Wonder who and how much the US had to bribe to get this deal?
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The privatization of war, part 3.7 (Business as usual)
Posted by G.A. Matiasz on September 21, 2007
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playing for keeps 