A disturbing pattern regarding our private mercenary Hessians, folks.
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Sort of makes you wonder who is raising hell in Iraq, huh?
WASHINGTON - Top executives at Blackwater Worldwide authorized secret payments of about $1 million to Iraqi officials that were intended to silence their criticism and buy their support after a September 2007 episode in which Blackwater security guards fatally shot 17 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad, according to former company officials.
Blackwater approved the cash payments in December 2007, the officials said, as protests over the shootings stoked long-simmering anger inside Iraq about reckless practices by Blackwater’s employees. Company officials feared that Blackwater might be refused an operating license it would need to retain its contracts with the State Department and private clients, worth hundreds of millions of dollars annually.
I wouldn't have worried too much.
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They aren't going anywhere, readers.
Of course, the BRIBE was ALL TAX DOLLARS!
WHO do you think is paying Blackwater!?
Four former Blackwater executives said in interviews that Gary Jackson, then the company’s president, had approved the bribes and that the money was sent from Amman, Jordan, where Blackwater maintains an operations hub, to a manager in Iraq....
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