ICasualties:
| U.S. Deaths Confirmed By The DoD: | 3814 |
| Reported U.S. Deaths Pending DoD Confirmation: | 3 |
| Total | 3817 |
| Name | Date |
| Richards, Jack D. | 29-Jul-2007 |
| Cassidy, Gerald J. | 25-Sep-2007 |
> UPI:
The Iraqi government wants Blackwater USA to pay $8 million to each of the 17 families whose relatives were shot to death in Baghdad last month.
The government also wants the United States to sever ties with the private security firm within six months and to hand over the shooters for prosecution under Iraqi law, the BBC reported Tuesday......
.....North Carolina-based Blackwater is the largest of 28 private security firms used to protect U.S. officials in Iraq. Blackwater employs 744 U.S. citizens in Iraq.......
According to the book, Blackwater recruits its troops in Chile, Columbia and El Salvador. Here are some excerpts from Blackwater, by Jeremy Scahill:
p. 200 .....The Chilean commandos working for Blackwater "are valued for their expertise in kidnapping, torturing and killing defenseless civilians.......”
p. 182 ...among the largest contingents of non-U.S. soldiers imported to Iraq by Blackwater were former Chilean commandos, some of whom trained or served under the brutal military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet......
> The Guardian has some news on Burma:
The prospect of a meeting between Burma's detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and the military ruler faded today, after she refused to accept preconditions for the talks set by the junta.
Last week Burma's reclusive military leader, General Than Shwe, agreed to meet Aung San Suu Kyi but only if she renounced her confrontational stance against the regime and renounced calls for sanctions on Burma....
Aung San Suu Kyi is a brave woman. She has been on house arrest for years but she is still able to inspire her people.
> A letter to the editor in the Montgomery Advertiser responds to a previous letter which accused "...Democrats of half-truths and outright lies...."
The letter reminds the previous letter writer, Mr. Johnson, about the behavior of the Republicans.
....Perhaps Mr. Johnson and the rest of his self-righteous hate mongers should recall the likes of Jack Abramoff, Mark Foley, Robert Ney, Curt Weldon, Don Sherwood, Rick Renzi, John Porter, Richard Pombo, John Doolittle, Thomas Reynolds, Deborah Pryce, Sue Kelly, Katherine Harris, John Sweeney, Christopher Shays, and of course Larry Craig and David Vitter.
Did you notice Deborah Pryce's name in that collection of Republican names?
