The Blackwater Timeline
From: "Making A Killing: A Blackwater Timeline".
--2006
Blackwater's federal contracts total $593 million.
May 2006
Blackwater announces plans for new combat training facilities in California and the Philippines.
February 6, 2006
Pentagon releases its Quadrennial Defense Review, classifying private contractors as a part of the Defense Department's "Total Force."
September 24, 2006
Blackwater convoy driving down the wrong side of the road ("counter flowing") in al-Hillah strikes an oncoming car, propelling it into a telephone pole. The Iraqi car bursts into flames. Blackwater contractors leave the scene without offering help to the victim, who dies in the fire.
December 24, 2006
Drunken Blackwater operator Andrew Moonen shoots the Iraqi vice presidents' security guard in the Green Zone. He is fired, fined, and flown back to the United States, but returns to Kuwait two months later with another private contracting firm.
2007
Blackwater's federal contracts total $1 billion.
More.
Linked from War & Piece.
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Labels: Blackwater mercenaries
posted by Dean @
Tuesday, October 09, 2007
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1 Comments:
Blackwater has no place in our military conflicts -- a fact that even Clinton once realized when she pledged to ban the company from federal contracts in 2008. The US should respect the US-backed Afghan President Hamid Karzai's recent efforts to ban military contractors and send Blackwater packing.
Tell Secretary of State Clinton to listen to the Afghan people and stop doing business with Blackwater! Sign the petition below:
http://www.change.org/codepinkalert/petitions/view/tell_hillary_clinton_stop_doing_business_with_blackwater
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