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Contrary1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-12-07 04:11 PM
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Source: Soldiers found no evidence gunmen fired on Blackwater
Ooops! Which one of you terrorist loving Liberals picked up all those shell casings?

"BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- U.S. soldiers investigating a shooting by Blackwater guards that left 17 Iraqis dead found no evidence the security contractors were fired upon, a source familiar with a preliminary U.S. military report said Friday.

The soldiers also found evidence suggesting the guards fired on cars that were trying to leave Nusoor Square in Baghdad during the shootings, the military source said.

The report said the weapons casings found by soldiers, who arrived about 20 minutes after the shooting subsided, matched only those used by U.S. military and contractors, the source said.

The soldiers "did not find any cartridge casings that would have matched those used by Iraqi security forces or insurgents," the source said.

Blackwater has no comment on the report, spokesman Anne Tyrell said..."

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/10/12/iraq.main/index.html



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RC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-12-07 04:46 PM
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1. Try'em in the Iraqi Courts.
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