Iraq 'to Appeal Blackwater Verdict'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/01/01-6
Iraq to Support Blackwater Lawsuit in US Courts
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/01/04-1
Blackwater and the Khost Bombing: Is the CIA Deceiving Congress?
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/01/06-9
Discerning the CIA's (and Blackwater/Xe's) Role in Afghanistan
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/01/06
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Murder For Hire: CIA Reportedly Ordered Blackwater To Murder 9/11 Suspect
By Diana Sweet
In 2004, the CIA sent a team from the private security firm Blackwater, now Xe, to Hamburg to kill an alleged al Qaeda financier who was investigated for years by German authorities on suspicion of links to al Qaeda, according to a little-highlighted element in a Vanity Fair article to be published this month.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24334.htm
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Old Blackwater keeps on rollin’
AntiWar.Com
by Jeff Huber
01/07/10
You know about those five Blackwater guards who shot up 17 Iraqis in Sept. 2007 for no apparent reason and who recently got their case dismissed by a federal judge on a technicality? Well, the U.S, prosecutors knew their case would go down like the Hindenburg from the get go. (Blackwater has officially changed its name to ‘Xe’ but everybody still calls it ‘Blackwater,’ so we will too.) The prosecutors based their case on statements the Blackwater guards had made in an initial report on the massacre. As government contractors, the guards were required to make those statements. The Constitution protects defendants from having to testify against themselves, so the statements in the required report couldn’t be used in a prosecution. But the prosecution built its case around the statements anyway. … One can’t help but wonder if the prosecutors failed to apply common sense on purpose...
http://tinyurl.com/y9nc7gm
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Blackwater
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Central+Intelligence+Agency
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=9/11
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=al-Qaeda
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=contractor
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Diana+Sweet
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jeremy+Scahill
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jeff+Huber
Iraq to Support Blackwater Lawsuit in US Courts
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/01/04-1
Blackwater and the Khost Bombing: Is the CIA Deceiving Congress?
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/01/06-9
Discerning the CIA's (and Blackwater/Xe's) Role in Afghanistan
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/01/06
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Murder For Hire: CIA Reportedly Ordered Blackwater To Murder 9/11 Suspect
By Diana Sweet
In 2004, the CIA sent a team from the private security firm Blackwater, now Xe, to Hamburg to kill an alleged al Qaeda financier who was investigated for years by German authorities on suspicion of links to al Qaeda, according to a little-highlighted element in a Vanity Fair article to be published this month.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24334.htm
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Old Blackwater keeps on rollin’
AntiWar.Com
by Jeff Huber
01/07/10
You know about those five Blackwater guards who shot up 17 Iraqis in Sept. 2007 for no apparent reason and who recently got their case dismissed by a federal judge on a technicality? Well, the U.S, prosecutors knew their case would go down like the Hindenburg from the get go. (Blackwater has officially changed its name to ‘Xe’ but everybody still calls it ‘Blackwater,’ so we will too.) The prosecutors based their case on statements the Blackwater guards had made in an initial report on the massacre. As government contractors, the guards were required to make those statements. The Constitution protects defendants from having to testify against themselves, so the statements in the required report couldn’t be used in a prosecution. But the prosecution built its case around the statements anyway. … One can’t help but wonder if the prosecutors failed to apply common sense on purpose...
http://tinyurl.com/y9nc7gm
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Blackwater
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Central+Intelligence+Agency
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=9/11
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=al-Qaeda
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=contractor
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Diana+Sweet
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jeremy+Scahill
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jeff+Huber
rudkla - 1. Jan, 22:13
