Saturday, October 20, 2007

Blackwater confiscated Iraqi planes.

From Thinkprogress:

Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) has revealed that “Blackwater USA tried to take at least two Iraqi military aircraft out of Iraq two years ago and refused to give the planes back when Iraqi officials sought to reclaim them.” Waxman today wrote to Blackwater CEO Erik Prince and requested that he “provide all documents related to the attempted shipment and to explain where the aircraft are now.”

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Blackwater is turning out to be more of a disgrace and embarrassement to this country every single day.

KittyBowTie1 said...

"Time" magazine says there are dozens of such companies but it's Blackwater that gets all of the attention.

Next time, hire Hessians and Cossacks.

;-)

KittyBowTie1 said...

BTW, do we have a laundry list of all of the politically connected people who have financial ties to Blackwater? Was that out already? Maybe I was asleep.

C'mon, they couldn't have gotten government contracts without dirty connections.

SP Biloxi said...

"BTW, do we have a laundry list of all of the politically connected people who have financial ties to Blackwater? Was that out already? Maybe I was asleep."

Yes, we do. I posted a laundry list connected to Blackwater. Will reposted that for Sunday.