... Phelps did not win the Olympic Butterfly 100 meter final. Milorad Cavic of Serbia won the event and after the race stated that he had won the event. Cavic had already soundly beaten Phelps in the Semifinals of that event! After the race Phelps also stated...
...involving American security contractors took place on Sept. 16, 2007 at a busy intersection in Baghdad. Guardsmen from Blackwater USA were escorting American diplomats and thought they were being fired upon. They shot at what they thought were hostile Iraqis....
... After the war, twelve years of international sanctions had impoverished the nation, caused the death of hundreds of thousands, and all but destroyed the water and healthcare systems. But the effective division of control over Iraq into three autonomous zones...
...invades a country they never leave. The U.S has a military presence in over 130 countries right now...and counting. Blackwater USA, Custer Battles, Dyncorp, etc and all 45,000 armed military contractors are paid 4 times what the regular U.S. mercenary marauder/cutthroat...
...private security forces, released a statement announcing that Clinton is now co-sponsoring legislation to "ban the use of Blackwater and other private mercenary firms in Iraq," saying, "The time to show these contractors the door is long past due." Read her...
...violence becomes more organized and directed at U.S. forces and private contractors. March 31, 2004, four employees for Blackwater USA, a private security firm, are killed and mutilated in Fallujah. June 28, 2004, U.S. transfers sovereignty to Iraq. Summer...
...All these years after Kosovo... ...and their buddy's airline recently 'lost' 1/4 million AK47s for us ... ...while Blackwater USA was 'losing' 100s of thousands of Glock machine pistols & silencers to the Turkish underworld al Qaeda and a couple of thousand...
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...infrastructure and made rebuilding nearly impossible. Private US companies such as Halliburton, Kellogg Brown & Root, DynCorp, and Blackwater USA continue to work under US Defense Department contracts worth billions of dollars, despite growing controversy about...
...few procedures for vetting the contractors' background or controlling their activities. As PMCs like Triple Canopy and Blackwater USA grew, their armed employees became embroiled in unprovoked shooting incidents and the killing of Iraqi civilians, and Congress...