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Jeremy Scahill: Confronting Blackwater on its Killing of Iraqis

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Last week, Jeremy spoke at a conference organized by NYU's Center on Law and Security called "Privatizing Defense: Blackwater, Contractors, and American Security." Also present at the conference were Blackwater Worldwide vice president Martin Strong and a lawyer for Blackwater, David Hammond. At the conference, I confronted Strong on Blackwater's ...

Iraqi Civilians incl. Children Mutilated by Coalition

Saturday, September 8th, 2007

US troops... an airborne landing in the village of ash-Shabab north of Baghdad on Wednesday...the Americans killed five villagers in the raid and then mutilated their bodies. The witnesses added that the Americans then killed another youth in at-Tarimiyah and cut off his limbs...those Americans were implementing policy that ...