Waxman: Blackwater Cost-Cutting to Blame for 2004 Fallujah Ambush
Spencer Ackerman for TPM Muckraker reports that "right on the heels of a Brookings Institution report detailing the problems private military companies create for counterinsurgency efforts in Iraq, Representative Henry Waxman has released a study finding that Blackwater improperly prepared its contractors for traveling through Fallujah in March 2004 - a trip that proved to be fatal."
https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092707S.shtml
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Blackwater “impeded” probe into contractor deaths
CNN
09/27/07
Private military contractor Blackwater USA ‘delayed and impeded’ a congressional probe into the 2004 killings of four of its employees in Falluja, Iraq, the House Oversight Committee said Thursday in a report. Blackwater contractors Jerry Zovko, Scott Helvenston, Mike Teague and Wesley Batalona were ambushed, dragged from their vehicles and killed on March 31, 2004...
https://tinyurl.com/347j8o
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Waxman
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Blackwater
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Fallujah
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Spencer+Ackerman
https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092707S.shtml
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Blackwater “impeded” probe into contractor deaths
CNN
09/27/07
Private military contractor Blackwater USA ‘delayed and impeded’ a congressional probe into the 2004 killings of four of its employees in Falluja, Iraq, the House Oversight Committee said Thursday in a report. Blackwater contractors Jerry Zovko, Scott Helvenston, Mike Teague and Wesley Batalona were ambushed, dragged from their vehicles and killed on March 31, 2004...
https://tinyurl.com/347j8o
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Waxman
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Blackwater
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Fallujah
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Spencer+Ackerman
rudkla - 28. Sep, 11:12
