US military: Afghan contractors (Blackwater) violated gun policy

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Source: AP

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- The U.S. military says today that four U.S. contractors for the company formerly known as Blackwater were not authorized to carry weapons when they were involved in a deadly shooting in Afghanistan.

The men are accused of shooting at a vehicle in Kabul on May 5. They say their employer, now called Xe, gave them guns in breech of the company's contract. One Afghan was killed and two others were wounded.

North Carolina-based Xe has said its employees are not generally banned from carrying weapons in Afghanistan, though it depends on the duties of the contractors. The Moyock company has not commented on the terms of this contract or said if it issued guns to the men.

But the military told The Associated Press that the contract did not allow the men to keep guns on them.


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[Winterblues]

1. I wonder what they were contracted to do without guns..

They are a supposed "Security Firm", Something is strange here..

[LiberalLovinLug]

2. Xe(nophobia) Inc.

xenophobic:
One unduly fearful of what is foreign and especially of people of foreign origin.

How long before they have to change their name again to hide their crimes? I give them one year. Although as you can see, their new name actually represents them very well.

[tanyev]

3. Or Xe(nu)

Xenu was, according to Scientology founder and science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, the dictator of the "Galactic Confederacy" who, 75 million years ago, brought billions of his people to Earth in DC-8-like spacecraft, stacked them around volcanoes and killed them using hydrogen bombs. Scientology holds that the essences of these many people remained, and that they form around people in modern times, causing them spiritual harm. Members of the Church of Scientology widely deny or try to hide the Xenu story.