Support Troops Like THESE? #265-#269

Okay, the next day, thank God I am through the section of Republicanoffenders.com that deals with pedophiles. I took several hot showers. Now I am back to manslaughter.

Sunday, November 22, 2009
Support Troops Like THESE? #265-#269
#265-269 PAUL SLOUGH, NICHOLAS SLATTEN,EVAN S. LIBERTY, DUSTIN L. HEARD, DENNIS BALL
FIVE EX-SECURITY GUARDS FOR XE, FORMERLY BLACKWATER

Once known as 'Blackwater,' before it changed it's name, Xe had a history of running roughshod over the people of Iraq. However, most of it was rumor.

Then came the Nisoor Square Incident of Sept. 16, 2007. You probably don't remember this one but the Xe guards allegedly started blasting away at civilians in the square, totally unprovoked. They killed 14 and wounded 20.

Just another rumor? That's probably what guys like Festus, Felcher, Babs and Frito of the newsgroup alt.impeach.bush would say. Except there's the little problem of the SIXTH security guard. Yeah, there were six of them, not five. The sixth guard was Jeremy Ridgeway, and HE'S cooperating with investigators after confessing to voluntary manslaughter.

[UPDATE: Frito was humliated right off alt.impeach,bush and Babs hardly ever posts
there anymore.]

The lawyers for the Xe Five are trying everything they can think of to derail the prosecution. After all, they have a year before the trial. The latest ones they tried were to claim were a) that the prosecutors did not have jurisdiction to bring
the charges because the guards were providing security for the State Department, not the Defense Department and b) the other was that the charges should have been brought in the defendants home states rather than D.C.

Technicalities don't stop the GOP cocksuckers from claiming them, do they?

[UPDATE: Five Blackwater, now Xe guards involved in the Nisoor Square shooting are
scheduled to face trial on federal manslaughter charges in February 2010 in Washington. A sixth guard pleaded guilty in December 2008. Iraqi victims are also suing the company and its founder, Erik Prince.

Courtesy of the Seattle Times website]