Blackwater banned from Iraq
This is a very interesting development. For some reason, if you set up and independent government they start working independently.
Update: Clearly I was mistaken. I used the word independent and (Iraqi) government in the same sentence. Faster than you can say Iraqi outrage, the Iraqi government seems to be back trackin’. Blackwater is sort banned. Like C3PO in the Empire Strikes Back, when he wanders into that room, Storm Troopers, here. I have to warn the others. Then he gets blasted. I’m sure that someone in the White House or State Department or Pentagon or all three called Prime Minister Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Consider his jets cooled.
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From CNN.com:
Iraq’s Interior Ministry has revoked the license of Blackwater USA, an American security firm whose contractors are blamed for a Sunday gunbattle in Baghdad that left eight civilians dead.
Blackwater, one of many security firms contracted by the U.S. government during the Iraq war, provides protection for American diplomats.
Sunday’s firefight took place near Nusoor Square, an area that straddles the predominantly Sunni Arab neighborhoods of Mansour and Yarmouk. (more…)
