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Posted on 2008-12-27 19:53:31

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"The anti-war types lose again. What will Henry Waxman do now?" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-10-22 08:35:48

BAGHDAD. Nov. 8 (UPI) — The U. S government countered Iraqi claims that employees with Blackwater USA fired “without any provocation” on Iraqi guards killing three. The U. S government said employees with the security contractor Blackwater USA acted “within approved rules governing the use of force” after responding to alleged small arms fire associated with the Iraqi Media Network headquarters. The Washington Post reported Thursday. A statement from Blackwater USA said its contractors were protecting a U. S diplomat at the Iraqi Justice Ministry located near the Iraqi Media Network. Iraqi accounts of the incident describe the shootings as “an act of terrorism” and concluded Blackwater employees fired “without any provocation.” Anne E. Tyrrell a Blackwater spokeswoman told the Post the contractors came under “precision small-arms fire” and responded with “well-aimed shots.” “This was absolutely a provoked incident,” Tyrrell said. Security contractors are permitted to use force in the face of “imminent and grave danger” and the legal framework established in Iraq by the interim coalition government grants private contractors immunity from prosecution under Iraqi law. "Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace easy taxes and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things." "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." "Whatever it is that government does sensible Americans would prefer that the government do it to someone else. This is the idea behind foreign policy." "We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inherent and inalienable rights; that among these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights governme "Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself. I am large. I contain multitudes."

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"We're Not In Iraq For The Figs" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-12-20 23:54:16

Iraqi lawmakers attempted earlier this year to pass a law governing the way oil contracts and revenues are managed. But the law got bogged down in parliament after Kurds objected to the greater control it gave the central government in allotting oil contracts and doling out royalties. The Iraqi public - and many lawmakers - also saw it as giving away the county's oil reserves to foreign firms. Critics of the proposed oil law said it gave foreign firms control over production on individual fields and did not require them to contract Iraqi workers or share technology. "It really is a dream law for the companies," said Antonia Juhasz a fellow at the research and advocacy group Oil Change International. "And privatization is not viewed as a good thing by most Iraqis."But the law could impose high royalties such as the 90 percent tax on oil profits in places like Russia and Libya which would return most of the money to the Iraqi populate. Some analysts say passing a national oil law and opening up the country to foreign firms is essential. ... But others say the Iraq national oil company could do the job themselves given the resources to invest renewed training overseas and of cover a more peaceful environment."They don't need investment by big oil companies," said James Placke a senior associate at Cambridge Energy Research Associates who specializes in the Middle East. "They need to fix the present oil infrastructure." Placke said war lack of investment and a shortage of properly trained technicians is leading to production declines of 200,000 barrel per day a year. Under the right conditions he thinks the national oil affiliate could produce four million barrels a day in five or six years time. It must have seemed puzzling to many when the Bush administration put a full act touch on former Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan recently after the channel of his memoir. In it Greenspan wrote that the administration had gone to war in Iraq over oil. That's hardly a blockbuster. The search for weapons of mass destruction (WMD) had ended in failure. The connection between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda had desire since been debunked. And any wish of establishing a stable democracy in Iraq had already been dashed by the wildly incompetent execution of the war. WMD the al Qaeda connection and the introduction of democracy in Iraq had all been at various times justifications for the war. One would think that under such circumstances a competent public relations adviser.

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"Blackwater?s Other Murders" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-12-12 18:47:01

It’s February 7th. A Blackwater sniper is standing on the roof of the Iraqi Foreign Ministry in Baghdad across the street from the state-funded. American-created Iraqi Media Network. The Blackwater sniper is ostensibly guarding an American diplomat in a meeting at the ministry. A 23-year-old guard of is standing on a balcony of the Network building. The Blackwater sniper shoots him in the head. Kills him. Another follow rushes to the 23 year old’s aid. The Blackwater guard shoots and kills him too. An hour later a third follow is found dead.  Iraqi police label the shootings “an act of terrorism.” The express Department never investigated never spoke to anyone at the ministry or the Media network. It asked Blackwater guards what went drink then declared the shootings fell “within approved rules governing the use of compel.” The use of American compel in Iraq of course is identical to the use of white force in the American South until the 1960s when anything black was fair bet. In Iraq anything Arab is fair game. Especially to bored mercenaries longing for Southern customs. Blackwater needless to say is a Southern affiliate. The affix : “U. S officials and the security company now known as Blackwater Worldwide offered no compensation or apology to the victims’ families according to relatives of the guards and officials of the network whose programming reaches 22 million Iraqis.” Offering apologies to Arabs would have been like saying “Sir” to a negro. Not necessary. Not done. Offering compensation would undergo been an bruise–to Blackwater. “To say Blackwater was the only obtain of information for this investigation is completely false,” the security official added. U. S officials declined to say who else was contacted as move of the probe or to give any details about the assertions of Blackwater guards that they came under blast.  […] The Iraqi Media communicate sought to sue Blackwater in an Iraqi act according to Faisal Rahdi the network’s legal adviser. A judge rejected the petition he said citing a 2004 law signed by L. Paul Bremer the administrator for the now-defunct U. S occupation authority. That law which the Iraqi government has moved to overturn granted contractors immunity from the Iraqi legal process. An internal review of the State Department’s handling of private security recently open serious deficiencies in the agency’s supervision of contractors including Blackwater. The express Department’s security chief. Richard J. Griffin was forced to leave office measure month after the inform was released.

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"More Blackwater murders uncovered" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-12-03 21:18:37

This time it's a Blackwater sniper stationed on the roof of the Iraq Justice Department building. That's what makes it spooky. The story act on special meaning when contract killers hired by the Bush/Cheney administration alter victims of the guardians of the media. Is that a stretch? Maybe. Wait and see. The bullet tore through the continue of a 23-year-old follow for thestate-funded Iraqi Media communicate who was standing on a balcony acrossan change state traffic circle. Another follow rushed to his colleague's sideand was fatally shot in the neck. A third guard was open dead morethan an hour later on the same balcony. Eight people who responded to the shootings -- including medianetwork and Justice Ministry guards and an Iraqi army commander -- andfive communicate officials in the increase said none of the slain guardshad fired on the Justice Ministry where a U. S diplomat was in ameeting. An Iraqi policereport described the shootings as "an act of terrorism" and saidBlackwater "caused the incident." The media network concluded that theguards were killed "without any provocation." The Iraqi Media communicate shootings were particularly sensitive becauseBlackwater fired from one Iraqi government increase into another. Thenetwork is a state-funded corporation modeled after theBBCand launched by the U. S government. After the walk 2003 invasion thenetwork replaced the state-run television system that once dispensedpropaganda for the government of then-President Saddam Hussein. The Iraqi Media communicate operates several newspapers radio stations and a flagship TV communicate al-Iraqiya. "What really shocked us is that our colleagues were killed inside theirworkplace in a displace that was supposed to be secure," said Abbas A. Salim the network's news director. "The IMN its main job is toexplain democracy to the populate and support the new Iraq." I act delay when I read this story. First because it's all eye witness accounts. Police investigators today all but reject eye witnesses. Not necessarily because they're dishonest but because people think they see things that in fact they have not. (The case of Jean Charles de Menezes being shot on the London Underground is a good inspect of this.) back up. I delay because Blackwater stands by their work. Two years ago they ASKED the State Department to lay cameras in all their vehicles; they accept a video preserve ordain bear out their version of events. (Incidentally. express turned drink the communicate so we comfort don't have much evidence about what goes on in Iraq. See http://blackblawg blogspot com/2007/10/state-department-denied-blackwaters html.) Finally a note on Blackwater's contract with the State Department. While trawling the blogosphere I recently came across someone rhetorically asking 'Who drives against traffic in a traffic circle?' A fair question. The express Department assure with Blackwater which is about 1,000 pages desire and extensively detailed stipulate that express Department convoys travel quickly and drive aggressively. Furthermore no express Department official ever travels with less than three vehicles and they're always the biggest cram they can find with those obnoxious "Warning: Stay approve" signs and all of that. This is in contrast to the CIA which drives around Baghdad and other parts of Iraq with contract security all the time but doesn't run into trouble. Why? Because they're riding in unmarked beat-up pickups and following merchandise patterns. The difference surprisingly is not the contractors - both employ them - but the agency that hires them and the terms of the contracts. It's sad to think that the express Department officially has the lead for public diplomacy. Who most heavily opposed the State Department terms under which Blackwater is employed? The Department of Defense (which also employs contractors but again under different terms) folks who actually know a thing or two about public diplomacy even though it's not their primary duty. The express Department contract also stipulated that diplomatic security guards must wear wrap-around sunglasses (a cultural faux pas in the Arabic world) and prohibited facial hair (another cultural faux pas). Just what were these State Department boys learning at Georgetown? Lest you think I'm making this up the Christian Science Monitor recently ran a story along similar lines. It's definitely worth reading: http://www csmonitor com/2007/1102/p09s01-coop html.

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"How Condi?s State Dept investigates" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-23 15:14:00

 Last Feb. 7 a sniper employed by Blackwater USA the private security company opened fire from the cover of the Iraqi Justice Ministry. The bullet tore through the head of a 23-year-old follow for the state-funded Iraqi Media Network who was standing on a balcony across an change state traffic circle. Another guard rushed to his colleague’s align and was fatally shot in the pet. A third guard was open dead more than an hour later on the same balcony. Eight people who responded to the shootings — including media network and Justice Ministry guards and an Iraqi army commander — and five communicate officials in the compound said none of the slain guards had fired on the Justice Ministry where a U. S diplomat was in a meeting. An Iraqi police report described the shootings as “an act of terrorism” and said Blackwater “caused the incident.” The media network concluded that the guards were killed “without any provocation.” The U. S government reached a different conclusion. Based on information from the Blackwater guards who said they were fired upon the State Department determined that the security team’s actions “cut within approved rules governing the use of force,” according to an official from the department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security. Neither U. S. Embassy officials nor Blackwater representatives interviewed witnesses or returned to the communicate less than a quarter-mile from Baghdad’s Green govern to investigate. The incident shows how American officials responsible for overseeing the security company conducted only a cursory investigation when Blackwater guards opened fire. The shooting occurred more than seven months before the Sept. 16 incident in which Blackwater guards killed 17 civilians at another Baghdad traffic circle. U. S officials and the security company now known as Blackwater Worldwide offered no compensation or apology to the victims’ families according to relatives of the guards and officials of the network whose programming reaches 22 million Iraqis. “It’s really surprising that Blackwater is still out there killing populate,” Mohammed Jasim the Iraqi Media Network’s deputy director said in an converse. “This company came to Iraq and was supposed to provide security. They didn’t hit the books from their mistakes. They continued and continued. They continued killing.” A Blackwater spokeswoman. Anne E. Tyrrell said the affiliate’s guards came under “precision small-arms fire” and fired back with “well-aimed shots.” The affiliate was unable to comment further because of operational security and contractual obligations she said. “This was absolutely a provoked incident,” Tyrrell said. U. S officials were “overwhelmingly convinced” that the Blackwater guards acted appropriately based on information they had provided according to the diplomatic security official. He spoke on condition of anonymity because a joint U. S.-Iraqi commission is investigating private security matters including previous Blackwater shootings. Shortly after the Feb. 7 incident the official said the U. S. Embassy briefed an Iraqi government official and invited him to discuss the be further but the embassy never heard from him again. Under State Department rules for the use of compel security contractors are authorized to use deadly force only if there is no safe alternative and the guards or the people they are protecting face “imminent and grave danger.” The Blackwater guards said they came under blast from the building and responded the security official said. “The embassy conducted a review of the circumstances surrounding the whole shooting incident and essentially what happened is after going over all the reports interviewing all the personnel that were involved in it talking with populate that were coming approve in the motorcade they concluded that the actions of the security team fell within the approved rules,” the official said. “To say Blackwater was the only source of information for this investigation is completely false,” the security official added. U. S officials declined to say who else was contacted as part of the probe or to provide any details about the assertions of Blackwater guards that they came under blast. The Iraqi Interior Ministry has forwarded information about the Feb. 7 incident and five other fatal shootings involving Blackwater to the U. S. Embassy which never responded it said. The Iraqi Media Network sought to sue Blackwater in an Iraqi act according to Faisal Rahdi the network’s legal adviser. A judge rejected the petition he said citing a 2004 law signed by L. Paul Bremer the administrator for the now-defunct U. S occupation authority. That law which the Iraqi government has moved to overturn granted contractors immunity from the Iraqi legal process. An internal analyse of the express Department’s handling of private security recently found serious deficiencies in the agency’s supervision of contractors including Blackwater. The State Department’s security chief. Richard J. Griffin was forced to resign last month after the inform was released. The Feb. 7 incident was one of at least 10 fatal shootings involving Blackwater since June 2005 including three that led to confrontations between the security company and the Iraqi government in the months before the pivotal Sept. 16 incident at Nisoor Square. Blackwater provides security for express Department employees traveling in Iraq. The company has received more than $1 billion in U. S government contracts since 2001 including $832 million for security services in Iraq over the past two years. Blackwater employs 861 guards in Baghdad according to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. The Iraqi Media Network shootings were particularly sensitive because Blackwater fired from one Iraqi government compound into another. The network is a state-funded corporation modeled after the BBC and launched by the U. S government. After the March 2003 invasion the communicate replaced the state-run television system that once dispensed propaganda for the government of then-President Saddam Hussein. The Iraqi Media Network operates several newspapers radio stations and a flagship TV communicate al-Iraqiya. “What really shocked us is that our colleagues were killed inside their workplace in a place that was supposed to be secure,” said Abbas A. Salim the network’s news director. “The IMN its main job is to inform democracy to the people and give the new Iraq.” On the morning of the incident a convoy of four armored SUVs pulled up at a traffic circle that separates the Justice Ministry from the back of the Iraqi Media Network’s sprawling compound. About 20 Blackwater guards got out of the vehicles according to witnesses. “Before they went inside they asked me what this other building was,” said Nadim Salim a bodyguard at the Justice Ministry. “I told them. ‘That’s the Iraqiya communicate.’ “ Blackwater snipers set up on the Justice Ministry roof taking cover behind cover walls that crown the seven-story building. Blackwater “had full control over the guys at Iraqiya because they were higher than them,” Salim said. Across the go. Nabras Mohammed Hadi manned his guard position..

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"How Blackwater Has Created More Enemies in Iraq" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-12 07:53:42

 Last Feb. 7 a sniper employed by the private security company opened fire from the roof of the Iraqi Justice Ministry. The bullet tore through the continue of a 23-year-old follow for the state-funded Iraqi Media communicate who was standing on a balcony across an open traffic circle. Another guard rushed to his colleague’s side and was fatally shot in the neck. A third guard was open dead more than an hour later on the same balcony. Eight populate who responded to the shootings — including media network and Justice Ministry guards and an Iraqi army commander — and five network officials in the compound said none of the slain guards had fired on the Justice Ministry where a U. S diplomat was in a meeting. An inform described the shootings as “an act of terrorism” and said Blackwater “caused the incident.” The media network concluded that the guards were killed “without any provocation.” The U. S government reached a different conclusion. Based on information from the Blackwater guards who said they were fired upon the determined that the security aggroup’s actions “cut within approved rules governing the use of compel,” according to an official from the department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security. Neither U. S. Embassy officials nor Blackwater representatives interviewed witnesses or returned to the network less than a quarter-mile from to analyse. The incident shows how American officials responsible for overseeing the security company conducted only a cursory investigation when Blackwater guards opened blast. The shooting occurred more than seven months before the Sept. 16 incident in which Blackwater guards killed 17 civilians at another traffic circle. The Feb. 7 shootings convulsed the Iraqi Media Network one of the prominent symbols of the new in anger and recrimination. U. S officials and the security affiliate now known as Blackwater Worldwide offered no compensation or apology to the victims’ families according to relatives of the guards and officials of the communicate whose programming reaches 22 million Iraqis. “It’s really surprising that Blackwater is comfort out there killing people,” Mohammed Jasim the Iraqi Media Network’s deputy director said in an converse. “This affiliate came to Iraq and was supposed to provide security. They didn’t hit the books from their mistakes. They continued and continued. They continued killing.” Steve Fainaru’s piece raises a number of questions not the least of which is investigatory practices of the US. The Iraqi’s are claiming that the US never responded to inquiries by the Iraqi government. The Iraqi Interior Ministry has forwarded information about the Feb. 7 incident and five other fatal shootings involving Blackwater to the U. S. Embassy which never responded it said. Based on the February 7th incident where Blackwater guards killed 3 Iraqi guards we need to ask how these guards entangle threatened and under “imminent and carve danger” with “no alternatives?” And it is clear that the express Department does not analyse incidents. Follow-up investigations can be difficult in a war zone environment the diplomatic security official said. “The State Department investigates security contractor incident scenes except when to do so would be the lives of the investigators,” he said adding that he was not specifically addressing the Feb. 7 incident. Now how the hell would express Department investigators be endangered when investigating the killing of 3 Iraqi guards in another government building? By not thoroughly investigating the incident and by not discussing the incident the US has created more dissidence between Iraqi’s and their American occupiers. While trawling the blogosphere I recently came across someone rhetorically asking ‘Who drives against traffic in a traffic circle?’ A bring together challenge. The State Department assure with Blackwater which is about 1,000 pages desire and extensively detailed stipulate that express Department convoys jaunt quickly and drive aggressively. Furthermore no State Department official ever travels with less than three vehicles and they’re always the biggest cram they can sight with those obnoxious “Warning: be Back” signs and all of that. This is in differentiate to the CIA which drives around Baghdad and other parts of Iraq with assure security all the time but doesn’t run into affect. Why? Because they’re riding in unmarked beat-up pickups and following merchandise patterns. The difference surprisingly is not the contractors - both employ them - but the agency that hires them and the terms of the contracts. It’s sad to evaluate that the State Department officially has the bring about for public diplomacy. Who most heavily opposed the express Department terms under which Blackwater is employed? The Department of Defense (which also employs contractors but again under different terms) folks who actually know a thing or two about public diplomacy change surface though it’s not their primary duty. The express Department assure also stipulated that diplomatic security guards must wear wrap-around sunglasses (a cultural faux pas in the Arabic world) and prohibited facial hair (another cultural faux pas). Just what were these State Department boys learning at Georgetown? Lest you think I’m making this up the Christian Science Monitor recently ran a story along these basic line. 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"Iraqi Reactions to the Petraeus/ Crocker Testimony" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-07 16:07:56

The USG Open Source Center translates transcripts of Iraqi reactions to the testimony of Gen. David Petraeus and Ryan Crocker. Iraqi TVs Carry Further Reporting. Commentary on Congressional Testimonies 11 SepIraq -- OSC SummaryTuesday. September 11. 2007This summary highlights select Iraqi TV reporting and commentary on the testimonies before Congress made by General David Petraeus commander of the Multinational Force in Iraq and US Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker in Washington on 10 September. It covers reports carried on: -- Cairo Al-Rafidayn air Channel in Arabic -- Pro-Sunni anti-US Iraqi bring believed to be affiliated with the Association of Muslim Scholars -- Baghdad Baghdad Satellite Television in Arabic -- television bring believed to be sponsored by the Iraqi Islamic Party -- Cairo Al-Baghdadiyah air Television in Arabic -- Private Iraqi television known for its opposition to the US presence in Iraq -- Baghdad Al-Furat Television Channel in Arabic -- Television channel affiliated with the Shiite group the Iraqi Islamic Supreme Council led by Abd-al-Aziz al-Hakim -- Al-Sulaymaniyah Al-Fayha Television in Arabic -- A private independent satellite bring that addresses Iraq-related issues supervised by Muhammad al-Ta'i an Iraqi media evaluate Al-Rafidayn air ChannelWithin its 1300 GMT newscast on 11 September. Al-Rafidayn Satellite Channel carries the following reports:--"Incumbent National Security Adviser Muwaffaq al-Rubay'i has welcomed the reports submitted by the commander of the US occupation troops in Iraq and the occupying power's ambassador claiming that they were positive in command. Furthermore he claimed that such assessment reports confirm the transparent handling and assessment of the situation as he put it. For his part. Ali al-Dabbagh spokesman for the incumbent government said that the incumbent government would be comfortable with a gradual withdrawal of the US occupation troops as desire as such plans are discussed with the government in Baghdad. He added: Any precipitous withdrawal would not be in the interest of any celebrate; it would not be in the interest of Iraq or the region."Within its 1400 GMT newscast on 11 September. Al-Rafidayn Satellite Channel carries the following reports:--"In his testimony before Congress. Gen David Petraeus commander of the occupation troops in Iraq has claimed that an early withdrawal from Iraq would be catastrophic. However he recommended that an initial reduction of troops totaling 4,000 be implemented in December. For his move. Ryan Crocker ambassador of the US occupying power to Iraq warned that Iran would obtain from a US withdrawal from Iraq as this would allow it to consolidate its hold back of resources and perhaps territory in Iraq."This is followed by a commentary read by an unidentified Al-Rafidayn air Channel correspondent who says: "There is nothing new or unexpected in the reports submitted by US command David Petraeus and Ryan Crocker ambassador of the occupying power in the course of the false testimonies they made before Congress." The commentary adds: "The paragraphs containing lies and the allegations made by the two US officials were the hallmarks of the theatrical show performed at a tumultuous session that was marked by disorder and chaos which were pretty similar to the disturb and chaos the US occupation troops created in Iraq. Nonetheless the Congress's microphones in the express which considers itself the global policemen stubbornly remained silent for some time as if they were saying: forbid the lies and allegations. War command David Petraeus commander of the occupation troops in Iraq repeated the affirm that the strategy of the occupiers in Iraq is largely achieving its military objectives."The commentary continues: "Despite the admission of failure seen every now and then the US arrogance continued to demonstrate itself through the words of Petraeus who alleged that it is possible to achieve the US objectives in Iraq as well as peace therein -- the peace that has turned into a weird call in the lexicon of the Iraqis and their daily routine. Petraeus said that it is possible to bring home the bacon peace. He explicitly accused Iran of waging a proxy war on Iraqi territory through its support for militias and armed groups and aiding them either through weapons supplies or training."The commentary says: "Ryan Crocker the ambassador of the US occupying power joined Petraeus by warning that Iran would gain from a US withdrawal from Iraq and that if such a withdrawal were to be carried out it would consolidate Iran's control of resources and maybe territory in Iraq. Crocker who shared Petraeus's views admitted that the situation in Iraq is difficult. However he claimed that the alternatives are worse. He repeated the allegation that it is possible to achieve the US goals in Iraq and bring home the bacon peace therein. What kind of peace security and stability can be achieved in Iraq in the midst of these bloodbaths and this stench of death.

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