U.S. military says contractors won't face charges (for random shootings)

[Barrett808]

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The U.S. military has concluded its investigation into a video that appeared to show private security contractors shooting at civilian vehicles on highways in Iraq and determined that no one involved will be charged with a crime, a military spokesman in Baghdad said.

The investigation, which officials have not released publicly, began after the video was posted on an Internet site purportedly run by employees of Aegis Defense Services, a London-based firm with a $293 million U.S. government security contract.

http://www.registerguard.com/news/2006/06/12/a2.int.contractor.0612.p1.php?section=nation_world

I saw this video. It clearly showed cars being randomly fired on, with drivers injured or killed as their vehicles wandered off the highway. This outcome is appalling, but predictable.

[Waya]

1. Beautiful.......

..juuuuuuuust beautiful....:mad:

[arcane1]

2. I've seen the vid, too...

just goes to show you why mercenaries have no business even existing... they can do WHATEVER THEY WANT

[Breeze54]

3. Dupe...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=1405957&mesg_id=1405957

[HuffleClaw]

4. of course

their 'investigation' likely lasted a whole thirty seconds.

[IndianaGreen]

5. LIke white people shooting buffalo as they rode the train

or like the KKK used shot at Blacks for the fun of it, or our military shot at Vietnamese out of boredom.

[Thickasabrick]

6. How does the Iraqi government feel about this? This is

essentially saying this type of behaviour is ok? If so, wouldn't it be fair to say that Iraqi civilians can declare "open season" on contractors?

[saigon68]

10. Periodically the Mercenaries "GET THEIRS" a date to the Barbecue

[Crunchy Frog]

12. Unfortunately, not without an entire city being leveled in retribution.

If they don't want to adhere to any legal standards or have any accountability, they shouldn't expect any protection either.

[saigon68]

13. The US Military followed the teaching of Lidice

Lidice (Liditz in German) is a village in Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic) which was completely destroyed by the Nazis during World War II. About 340 men, women and children from the village were murdered by the Nazis.


n 1942, Reinhard Heydrich was the Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia which had been occupied by Germany in 1939. On the morning of May 27, 1942, he was being driven from his country villa to his office in Prague. When he reached the Holešovice area of Prague, his car was attacked by two Czech resistance fighters, Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš. These men, who had been trained in Britain, had parachuted into Czechoslovakia in December, 1941, as part of Operation Anthropoid. On June 4, 1942, Heydrich died in Bulovka hospital in Prague from an infection. Hitler, enraged, ordered Kurt Daluege, Heydrich's replacement, to wade through blood to find Heydrich's killers. The Germans began a massive retaliation campaign against the civilian Czech populace.


The best known of these assaults occurred on June 10. German security police surrounded the village of Lidice, blocking all avenues of escape. The Nazis chose this village because of its residents' known hostility to the occupation and because Lidice was suspected of harbouring local resistance partisans. The entire population was rounded up, and all men over fifteen years of age were put in a barn. They were shot the next day.

IN FALLUJAH the Draft Dodging Chimpanzee had his LIDICE.

He used his rustic military to commit War Crimes

[zreosumgame]

14. bullies never think like that

nt

[Veronica.Franco]

7. Perfect ... have a rootin' tootin' good time cowboys ....

"It's like, ducks on the pond" ...

Sick bastards ... all of them ... now that we can sex fetuses, maybe it IS time to consider breeding some of these chuckers OUT of the race ...

I see NO hope in allowing evolution to continue trying to improve on the Cabela's clients among us ...

[goforit]

8. Corruption to the max.

[Benhurst]

9. Of course they won't be punished. Just some 'murkin boys

having a little fun fun with the natives.

Boys will be boys.

'Murkins will be 'murkins.

Fascists will be fascists.

[saigon68]

11. kick