Blackwater Said To Approve Iraqi Payoffs

[MercedesV]

Former top executives at Blackwater Worldwide say the U.S. security contractor sent about $1 million to its Iraq office with the intention of paying off officials in the country who were angry about the fatal shootings of 17 civilians by Blackwater employees, The New York Times reported Tuesday.

Four former executives described the plan under the condition of anonymity, the newspaper said.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/10/blackwater-said-to-approv_n_352980.html

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Former top executives at Blackwater Worldwide say the U.S. security contractor sent about $1 million to its Iraq office with the intention of paying off officials in the country who were angry about the fatal shootings of 17 civilians by Blackwater employees, The New York Times reported Tuesday.

Four former executives described the plan under the condition of anonymity, the newspaper said.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/10/blackwater-said-to-approv_n_352980.html As if money could bring back lives that were taken for no reason.

[Lifeguard]

Killing civilians in Iraq?

Why are any of these people not in jail now ??

I am so sick of these Bush/Cheney inspired death squads.

[MercedesV]

WASHINGTON — A senior Iraqi official said Wednesday that he had ordered an investigation into whether top officials of Blackwater Worldwide approved of bribes to Iraqi government officials after shootings by Blackwater guards in 2007 left 17 Iraqi civilians dead.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/12/world/middleeast/12blackwater.html?_r=1