Seven Protesters Arrested at Blackwater’s Headquarters

[kpete]

Published on Sunday, October 21, 2007
by The Virginian-Pilot
Seven Protesters Arrested at Blackwater’s Headquarters
by Bill Sizemore

Seven people were arrested Saturday at Blackwater Worldwide’s front entrance after protesters re-enacted the Sept. 16 shooting incident in Baghdad involving Blackwater contractors in which 17 Iraqis died.

It was the first protest at the 10-year-old private military company’s headquarters, a reflection of its heightened profile since the Baghdad shootings stirred Iraqi anger and created a diplomatic crisis for Blackwater’s client, the U.S. State Department.

The protesters drove a small gray station wagon, covered with simulated bullet holes and smeared with red paint, onto Blackwater’s property. One lay back in the driver’s seat and five others got out and lay on the ground, as if they had been shot.

The scene was intended to mimic that in Baghdad’s Nisour Square, where an Iraqi doctor and her son died in a fusillade of gunfire as their car approached a Blackwater diplomatic convoy.

more at:
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/20/4718/

[ixion]

1. because protesting is bad, but murdering innocent civillians is

the new 'Murikan way. :-(

[Quantess]

2. Kick.

[malaise]

3. It will soon be 7,000

Fuck Blackwater.

[aikoaiko]

4. I've seen this somewhere before.... oh yeah, the DU front page

http://www.democraticunderground.com/

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3036894

;)