Fallujah Mercenaries Assigned to New orleans
Sometimes it is better to just let you read what someone else wrote.
Here is a story from Jeremy Scahill and Daniela Crespo of Democracy Now about how the Department of Homeland Security has sent mercenaries from Blackwater to New Orleans to fight the criminals there. Remember Blackwater? They are the mercenaries that strung up the dead bodies on the bridge in Fallujah.
Here is the story:
Overkill: Feared Blackwater Mercenaries Deploy in New Orleans
By Jeremy Scahill and Daniela Crespo
NEW ORLEANS — Heavily armed paramilitary mercenaries from the Blackwater private security firm, infamous for their work in Iraq, are openly patrolling the streets of New Orleans. Some of the mercenaries say they have been “deputized” by the Louisiana governor; indeed some are wearing gold Louisiana state law enforcement badges on their chests and Blackwater photo identification cards on their arms. They say they are on contract with the Department of Homeland Security and have been given the authority to use lethal force. Several mercenaries we spoke with said they had served in Iraq on the personal security details of the former head of the US occupation, L. Paul Bremer and the former US ambassador to Iraq, John Negroponte. (Read the rest of it the story here…)