Blackwater and the Nisour Square Shootings - Steve Fainaru

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/11/20/Steve_Fainaru_In_the_Company_of_Americas_Mercenaries

Steve Fainaru, Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent for the Washington Post, discusses a highly publicized September 16, 2007 incident at Baghdad's Nisour Square, in which 17 Iraqi civilians were killed by employees of security contractor Blackwater Worldwide.

As of December 8, 2008, five of the guards involved are currently facing manslaughter charges brought by the U.S. government; a sixth guard has plead guilty to similar charges.

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On the margins of the Iraq war, a parallel army of 100,000 has been doing the jobs unable to be tackled by an overstretched U.S. military, either because they cannot or will not take on these jobs.

You may know them as "security contractors," and they operate outside the rules of engagement.

Fainaru traveled with several bands of "mercs" to find out why they have come to Iraq, revealing a brutally honest portrait of these individuals - The Commonwealth Club of California

Author of the book Big Boy Rules: America's Mercenaries Fighting in Iraq, Steve Fainaru is a foreign correspondent for the Washington Post, where he covered the war in Iraq from 2004 to 2007. In addition to the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, he received the Overseas Press Club's Hal Boyle Award for best newspaper or wire-service reporting from abroad for his stories on private security contractors. He was a Pulitzer finalist in 2006 for his coverage of U.S. troops as the insurgency in Iraq intensified.

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[magichandpuppet]

sounds like murder, plane and simple.

[82ndarmy]

i dont know how im pathetic because im defending blackwater and the private contractors that are fighting to save lifes. so if that makes me pathetic than i guess i am.

[lordtiberius]

I love Blackwater,

[GEOFFROYX]

Blackwater took american criminal killers out of jail to use them in Irak . Negroponté the wellknown war criminal welcom them in Irak .

And our medias are going on cool drinking without any single word about it . But holly shit , what are we still blaming Nazis for ??

[4aaaaa4]

The economic colonization of Iraq is a war crime.

The quarter of a million "contractors" RESIDING in Iraq as civilian colonists is a War Crime.

- article 49 of the Geneva Convention "The occupying forces shall not move any part of their civilian populations to the occupied territory".

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[MrDuffy81]

I was trying to find you something short to watch, but that video kinda sucked. I sent it before I watched it.

I put the jesuit playlist up so you don't have to look for it. Just skip ahead if one part of a video bores you, but so many names will be called out that the picture will only begin to become clearer.

YT has all my playlists out of alphabetical order.

Thanks

[82ndarmy]

so that video is about vatican police and how politics and such rule it? is that right?

[MrDuffy81]

The Jesuits...

The military knights of malta...

The vatican agents...

All the same.

We must inform each other of the Truth, else we fight amongst ourselves while the elite watch us die and get rich for doing such.

Please Copy and paste this above:

/watch?v=7vaj_nQNMHA

[82ndarmy]

i was gonna then i noticed how many playlists you got and decided no. and the infiltration of our nation and government specify on that please. then i will reply to it.

[MrDuffy81]

THE WAR ON TERROR IS A FABRICATION.

WATCH THE FEATURED VIDEOS ON MY CHANNEL.

The tides are changing, and if you want to defend America and the Constitution, then you should understand the infiltration of our nation and our government.

Start with my Jesuit playlist, if you please.