February 16, 2005
Families Sue Blackwater Over Deaths in Fallujah
The families contend in the state civil lawsuit that the workers were sent into Fallujah, Iraq, without proper equipment and personnel to defend the supply convoy they were guarding.
"The fact that these four Americans found themselves located in the high-risk, war-torn city of Fallujah without armored vehicles, automatic weapons and fewer than the minimum number of team members was no accident," the lawsuit said. "Instead, this team was sent out without the required equipment and personnel by those in charge at Blackwater."
~How soon we Homelanders forget. As of Feb 15, this is pretty much a non-story. GoogleNews has only one link to it. Considering what the US Military recently did to the city of Fallujah you might think this news would generate a little more interest. Don't bad-mouth the private armies? Iraq is so last year?
An Iraqi cheers in front of one of the burning cars.
The crowd chants anti-American slogans as the charred corpses of the victims hang from a bridge over the Euphrates River.
CNN's April 1, 2004 story
Posted by Cieciel at February 16, 2005 03:16 AM