Quote:Science Blogs (Dispatches From The Culture Wars): Former Employees Accuse Blackwater of Serious Crimes
August 5, 2009 9:23 AM
Ed Brayton
Two former employees of Blackwater (now called Xe), a private military contractor founded by Michigan native Erik Prince, have submitted sworn affidavits in a federal court case in Virginia alleging that Prince is motivated by anti-Muslim religious fervor and that he and his company are responsible for serious crimes, including murder.
The affidavits were filed under seal with the men referred to only as John Doe 1 and John Doe 2, but their testimony is sworn under potential perjury in official court documents. Both men testified to personal knowledge of Blackwater engaging in illegal arms smuggling into Iraq, Blackwater guards routinely engaging in unjustified violence against Iraqis and even of murdering other former employees who were ready to blow the whistle on them.
John Doe 1 is a former U.S. Marine who was hired by Blackwater and sent to Iraq as a guard for State Department personnel. He reports that immediately upon arriving in Baghdad to work for the company he witnessed Blackwater personnel unloading bags of dog food that were used for smuggling weapons into Iraq.
He also reports multiple incidents that he witnessed personally of Blackwater guards opening fire indiscriminately on Iraqi citizens, seriously injuring or killing them, without reporting the incidents to either the Iraqi government or the State Department as required by their contract.
Several of those incidents involved Blackwater guards firing into the vehicles of Iraqi citizens without provocation. At least two of those incidents involved a guard named Beau Phillips opening fire on vehicles with Iraqi citizens in them for no reason using a weapon that is illegal to take into Iraq, an M-249 Squad Automatic Weapon, or SAW. In neither case, the employee said, did the guards even bother to stop to see if anyone in the vehicles were alive and in need of medical care, nor did they report the incidents. And in no case was the guard responsible disciplined for their actions.
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This merits another, "Fuck Me Backwards!" ... I mean I know I'm not pro Muslim (in the slightest) or Christian (in the slightest) but these guys are fucking nuts!
Kyu
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