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'Enthusiastically,' Vehicles Hitting Civilians: One video shows a contractor randomly and ''enthusiastically'' firing an AK-47 from the turret of an armored vehicle and another shows a private guard yelling obscenities at passers-by and other armored cars smashing into civilian vehicles.

http://bit.ly/HodtFt



US Contractors Randomly Killing Civilians

Video

Employees of the US military contracting group Academi (formerly Xe, Blackwater USA and Blackwater Worldwide) are seen in new leaked video shooting their machine guns at random while driving through the streets of Baghdad, crashing into other cars and even running over a pedestrian without hesitation.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31019.htm



Blackwater guards again charged by US over Iraqi civilian deaths

Four former guards of the notorious private security firm Blackwater face new manslaughter charges from the US DoJ over a 2007 shooting in Baghdad. The original charges were dropped in 2009, a month before a scheduled trial.

http://rt.com/news/blackwater-guards-iraq-trial-364/


From Information Clearing House

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Videos Show Blackwater in Iraq Running Over Woman, Firing into Traffic
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/04/05-1

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Self-Dealing and the War Service Industry: KBR Held the Government Hostage

Dina Rasor, Truthout: ''This is the first part of a three-part series that will show self-dealing by leaders in the Army, who arranged for this favorable treatment of KBR, at the time a subsidiary of Halliburton. We will lead you through the actions and the consequences of these actions and the effects on the troops and the Army budget.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/8324-self-dealing-and-the-war-service-industry-part-i



Protecting Psychologists Who Harm: The APA s Latest Wrong Turn

Roy Eidelson, Truthout: ''Shortly after learning about the American Psychological Association's (APA) late February announcement of its new Member-Initiated Task Force to Reconcile Policies Related to Psychologists' Involvement in National Security Settings, I found my thoughts turning to the School of the Americas, Blackwater and perhaps even more surprisingly, the Patagonian toothfish. Those may seem like a strange threesome, but they share one important thing in common. All have undergone a thorough repackaging and renaming in a marketing effort aimed at obscuring, but not altering, some ugly truth.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/8296-protecting-psychologists-who-harm-the-apas-latest-wrong-turn



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Iraq
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=DoJ
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=American+Psychological+Association
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=contractor
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=School+of+the+Americas
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Blackwater
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Halliburton
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=KBR
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=manslaughter
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=civilian+deaths
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Dina+Rasor
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Roy+Eidelson

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