Overkill in New Orleans
 

Overkill in New Orleans

By Jeremy Scahill and Daniela Crespo, AlterNet. Posted September 12, 2005.

Blackwater mercenaries are some of the most feared professional killers in the world. What are they doing prowling the streets of Nola?

http://www.alternet.org/katrina/25320/

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 U.S. occupation, L. Paul Bremer and the former U.S. ambassador to Iraq, John Negroponte.

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Your gumint loves you....to death. :(