It will never happen. It doesn’t matter if they’re private contractors or not, they’re still Americans, and that carries more weight than the deliverance of justice, even in a country to which the rule of law was supposedly delivered…
“Iraqi authorities want the U.S. government to sever all contracts in Iraq with Blackwater USA within six months. They also want the firm to pay $8 million in compensation to families of each of the 17 people killed when its guards sprayed a traffic circle with heavy machine gun fire last month.
The demands – part of an Iraqi government report examined by The Associated Press – also called on U.S. authorities to hand over the Blackwater security agents involved in the Sept. 16 shootings to face possible trial in Iraqi courts.
The tone of the Iraqi report appears to signal further strains between the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and the White House over the deaths in Nisoor Square – which have prompted a series of U.S. and Iraqi probes and raised questions over the use of private security contractors to guard U.S. diplomats and other officials.”
Deep pockets the US certainly has, and I am certain that financial reparations will be made by the State Department – which ultimately means that US taxpayers will flip the bill for Blackwater’s actions that day. But they’ll not be tried in any Iraqi court, of that I can assure you. Nor will the State Department sever ties with Blackwater until an investigation is completed that clears the State Department of any complicity with regards to the actions of Blackwater during their time in Iraq. To sever ties, which would see Blackwater lose its largest contracts, as The Pentagon would certainly have to follow suit, would be to risk the divulgence of any impugning information that Blackwater might have with regards to State Department or Pentagon complicity. At the very least, it would result in a civil law suit against the government for contractual breach, which would also result in the divulgence of information.
Seeking Haditha Reference Materials
I was recently contacted by a US Marine that pointed out that those tried for murder in connection with the Haditha massacre have all be cleared of wrong doing. I, personally, have not come across anything about this, though having been on tour I must admit that my daily access to information is limited. I do not doubt the Marine’s email whatsoever, but I would appreciate it if readers could email me as many different articles concerning this matter as possible. I would very much appreciate it.