Morality in america ( or the lack of it)
- From: "The Rifleman" <Survivor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:59:33 -0000
Exactly 100% as forcast by many political observers up to two months ago,
They said then that the Yanks would let the Blackwater murderers get off by
some technicality,What more evidence is required by rational people that the
United states is now the bad guy.
Blackwater men 'given immunity'
Private US security contractors accused of shooting dead 17 innocent Iraqis
may have been offered partial immunity by the US state department, say
reports.
Unnamed officials said the offer was unauthorised and could make it much
more difficult to prosecute the guards employed by the Blackwater firm.
If confirmed, the revelation may put further strain on US-Iraq relations.
The Iraqi government was furious at the 16 September deaths, and demanded
the guards be handed over to face trial.
Blackwater says its staff acted in self-defence.
Legal confusion
The Associated Press news agency quotes three unnamed senior law enforcement
officials as saying that all the guards involved in the case were given the
legal protections as investigators from the Bureau of Diplomatic Security
looked into what had happened.
The bureau is the investigative arm of the Department of State.
The guards were offered "limited-use immunity deals", reported the New York
Times, which protects them against prosecution for anything they might say
in interviews with authorities as long as their statements are true.
The FBI took over the investigation earlier this month, after the justice
department realised it would not be able to bring charges based on the
guards' statements to the Bureau of Diplomatic Security, reported AP. But
some of the Blackwater employees have now reportedly refused to answer
further questions from FBI investigators.
Unnamed officials speaking to the New York Times questioned whether Bureau
of Diplomatic Security officials had the authority to offer such deals -
making the legal validity of the offers unclear.
Nonetheless, if the reports do turn out to be true, they could further
complicate the issue of how the guards could be tried.
The contractors are currently granted immunity from prosecution under Iraqi
law by Order 17 of the Coalition Provisional Authority - the now-defunct
interim body set up by the US-led coalition in the wake of the fall of
Saddam Hussein.
Private firms working for the Department of Defence are subject to existing
US legislation, but those private firms such as Blackwater working for the
state department are not.
Iraqi rage
Last Wednesday, the head of the BDS Richard Griffin resigned following a
state department report which identified an urgent need for tougher
oversight of the private firms.
The biggest and best-known of the companies is Blackwater.
The Iraqi government accuses Blackwater of the deaths of the 17 innocent
civilians in Baghdad, and says it wants the firm out of the country.
The Iraqi Prime Minister, Nouri Maliki, has described the shooting as a
"criminal act" and an inquiry by the Iraqi interior ministry concluded the
security guards were "100% guilty".
The head of Blackwater denies the killings were unprovoked, insisting his
men had been fired upon.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/middle_east/7068600.stm
Published: 2007/10/30 05:12:37 GMT
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