Contractors regarding the Blackwater shooting, "It is going to be the Abu Ghraib of our industry"

[sabra]

http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/09/26/379929.aspx

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Agents’ cars zigzag across the roads, guns pointed out the back. If a car gets too close, Blackwater agents often throw water bottles at its windshield. It's supposed to be a "non-lethal" warning. Better to have a water bottle hit you than be shot. But some Blackwater guards have been freezing the bottles so they crack the windshields.

Blackwater often keeps the same defensive posture even within the Green Zone, alienating just about everyone, their colleagues included.

One of the interior ministry officials involved in the investigation was himself hit by one of Blackwater's water bottle projectiles. He's still annoyed and insulted. The case is personal. He wants to see Blackwater go down. Many security contractors here do as well.

"This is worse than Abu Ghraib for us. It is going to be the Abu Ghraib of our industry," bemoaned one contractor, worried Blackwater's incident is going to ruin his business.

Another contractor said, "The big question is, why did the State Department allow Blackwater to behave this way? They were the clients. If they didn't like the way Blackwater operated, why didn't they say anything? Silence is consent."

[BridgeTheGap]

1. And it derserves to be...

Just one more slimy aspect to this whole sordid affair.

[eppur_se_muova]

2. Second that motion. nt