Reporting on Blackwater....'the guards became the terrorists' 'shooting lasted 20 minutes'

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they shot men, women, children, police..... from SUV's and helicoptors..killing seventeen and

wounding twenty four.

and they're back out working in Iraq...

providing security.

~snip~ .....one of the rounds struck a car and killed a young man who was sitting next to his mother, a doctor. Sarhan said he and an undercover Iraqi police officer ran to the car but they were unable to stop it from rolling forward toward the Blackwater convoy.

"I wanted to get his mother out, but could not because she was holding her son tight and did not want to let him go," Sarhan said. "They immediately opened heavy fire at us."

"Each of their four vehicles opened heavy fire in all directions, they shot and killed everyone in cars facing them and people standing on the street," Sarhan said.

The shooting lasted about 20 minutes, he said.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/10/02/blackwater.witness/

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1. The reporter left off the obvious

The convoy of four Blackwater vehicles drove into the square about half an hour after a bombing prompted another Blackwater team that was guarding a U.S. diplomat to rush from the area and back to the Green Zone, the enclave in Baghdad where U.S. and Iraqi government agencies have headquarters, looking for a fight.

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2. Almost 40 years ago was My Lai.

I wonder when we will have our My Lai moment? Just as My Lai was just the tip of the iceberg in Vietnam, one of the few times they got caught, I'm quite sure we've had My Lai in Iraq many times over. Fallujah comes to mind.