Comments on: Unanswered Questions in Blackwater Killings Persist

By: stanton

stanton — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:56:23 +0000

I re-read the various reports from different sources but as stated, if the vehicle in which the contractors were in, was diaabled, it would surely bring credence to the assertion that, under attck, BW had the right to respond as they did!
I am sure even the unconcerned would realize that insurgents have been using, are using and will continue to use civilians as shields and they know that US and NATO usually follow that guideline.

By: Dan V.

Dan V. — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:24:31 +0000

“Very sad” indeed but if Keith Olberdork and his ilk at msnbc proclaims it as “fact” who is to argue?

By: Susan Katz Keating

Susan Katz Keating — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:38:23 +0000

On a personal note: when I did a training session at Blackwater, I found the entire staff, especially the weapons and range instructors, to be so attuned to proper procedure and safety that they bordered on the psychic. Suffice it to say that one of the range instructors saw a problem before I knew it existed, and literally saved me from severing my own thumb.

As for the incident in question… the sad thing is, the facts don’t seem to matter. Those of us who pay attention to this case know that something is amiss. The general public, meanwhile, accepts the charges without question. As I recently heard from a young adult: “Oh, yeah. They’re the people who shot up a bunch of people in Iraq.” Very sad.

By: typos_R_us

typos_R_us — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:19:20 +0000

“This is why those fighting without uniforms should be treated as spies and saboteurs and shot upon capture.”

That is what the GCIV allows. Those famous war criminals of the Bush administration made the dubious decision to treat them otherwise.

By: Marc Malone

Marc Malone — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:06:30 +0000

The slow-moving car driving on the wrong side of the road is a dead giveaway. Of course it was an ambush! The car was meant to get the convoy to stop in the kill zone. They thought the stupid Infidels would not dare open fire right away. Problem was, these guys were ex-Seals and such. Fire for effect! It then became a firefight.

This is why those fighting without uniforms should be treated as spies and saboteurs and shot upon capture. The purpose is to prevent just such a problem as this. After all, how many of the dead were actually civilians, as opposed to being actual un-uniformed combatants? When both sides use uniforms, it prevents shooting them all and letting God sort them out.

By: Gunstar1

Gunstar1 — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:23:17 +0000

The FBI has abandoned bullet metal composition testing.

http://www.truthinjustice.org/FBI-ballistics2.htm

By: typos_R_us

typos_R_us — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 04:41:55 +0000

Ah-yup. this whole thing is political.
President Bush should have wrote them a pardon, only that would have taken a pair and Condi would tell where she hid his.

Reading between the lines and having spent a decade working under Islamic ‘kulture’, I think Blak water pissed off a powerful Iraqi. That Iraqi VIP then set BW up for a good screwing. The Lace pants crowd is stoooooopid enough to go along with it. Once BW is out of the picture, you can expect some of the State Dept guys to get snatched. Count on it.
One of the terms for long convoluted plots used to day is ‘Byzantine’. The Byzantines never called them selves that, but the Muslims might have. Not sure if the Eastern Romans learned their plotting skills from the Muslims or vice versa. I tend to think the Muslims copied them from the Greeks ( what the Muslims of the Umayyad caliphs period called the Byzantines), sine the Eastern Roman Empire predates Islam by a few centuries.
So an intricate plot involving many peoples worked over a period of several years is par for the course in that part of the world.
What BW needs to do is go back and make a list of suspects as to who set them up, then send sniper teams out after them.
That is the sort of thing Islamic VIP’s understand and can deal with.

By: Old Soldier

Old Soldier — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:55:28 +0000

OmegaPaladin: Blackwater follows the DOD rules of using hard-nosed ammunition (full-metal-jacket) not softer lead tipped bullets. If they were really spraying bullets at a crowd, there would be plenty of bullets to be found that were not badly deformed.

Even if they are deformed, it would be easy to tell them apart just by weight. Nato 5.56 = 49 to 65 grains, Nato 7.62 = 150 grains, Russian 7.62 x 39 = 121-123 grains.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 07:35:07 +0000

In regards to whether or not other casings could be found to prove or disprove an account, wasn’t it a couple of weeks before the FBI was even able to get to the scene?

That seems to me like a long time and could allow a lot of the evidence to ‘change’.

By: Bob Owens

Bob Owens — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:01:21 +0000

Federale,

At least one BW contractor did use a SR-25 in Nisoor Square, and that is a 7.62×51, though I certainly agree that no competent lab should be able to confuse that with a 7.62×39 round.