It's alright, I understand, it's still all the Muslims fault. These guys can't be blamed at all for trying to eliminate Muslims in a modern day crusade, the Muslims forced them to...

And it's not the U.S government's fault for hiring them, just a co-incidence right?

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Blackwater accused of murder in 'crusade to eliminate Muslims'

Erik Prince, chief executive of Blackwater, has seen allegations made against him by two former employees, holds a photograph of the remains of a blown up vehicle in Iraq
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Tim Reid in Washington

A series of allegations including murder, weapons smuggling and the deliberate slaughter of civilians have been levelled against the founder of Blackwater, the security company being investigated for shooting deaths in Iraq.

The accusations, including a claim that the company founder Erik Prince either murdered or had killed former employees co-operating with federal investigators, are contained in sworn affidavits lodged at a Virginia court on Monday night.

The company was the most prominent of an army of private security companies employed by the Pentagon and State Department to protect military convoys and guard US diplomats in Iraq.

The accusations against Mr Prince are being made by two former employees, including a former Marine, who have sworn them anonymously as John Doe No 1 and John Doe No 2, because they said they feared for their lives if their identities were revealed.

In one of the statements, John Doe 2, who worked for Blackwater for four years, alleged that Mr Prince “views himself as a Christian crusader tasked with eliminating Muslims and the Islamic faith from the globe” and that his companies “encouraged and rewarded the destruction of Iraqi life”.

They claimed that Mr Prince and other executives destroyed incriminating videos, e-mails and documents and hid their criminal behaviour from the US State Department.

John Doe 2 claimed in his affidavit that — based on information he said was provided to him by former colleagues — “it appears that Mr Prince and his employees murdered or had murdered one or more persons who have provided information, or who were planning to provide information, to the federal authorities about the ongoing criminal conduct”.

The affidavits are part of a motion lodged by lawyers representing 60 Iraqi civilians who are suing Blackwater for alleged crimes. The five civilian suits were consolidated before a judge in northern Virginia. The motion was in response to a request by Blackwater to dismiss the case.

Blackwater, which lost its multimillion-dollar State Department contract in May, denies the claims and is contesting the lawsuits. No criminal charges have been filed against Mr Prince.

In a statement released to CNN, the company said that it would respond “to the anonymous unsubstantiated and offensive assertions put forward by the plaintiffs” in a brief to be filed on August 17. It added: “It is obvious that plaintiffs have chosen to slander Mr Prince rather than raise legal arguments or actual facts that will be considered by a court of law. We are happy to engage them there.

“We question the judgment of anyone who relies upon and [reiterates] anonymous declarations.” Five Blackwater guards who pleaded not guilty to manslaughter charges are awaiting trial over a shooting incident in Nisour Square, Baghdad, on September 16, 2007, which left 17 Iraqis dead. A sixth guard pleaded guilty.

The John Doe 2 affidavit alleged that Mr Prince intentionally deployed like-minded men to Iraq “who shared his vision of Christian supremacy, knowing and wanting these men to take every available opportunity to murder Iraqis. Many of these men used call signs based on the Knights of the Templar, the warriors who fought the Crusades”. It stated that Blackwater employees consistently used racist and derogatory terms.

The separate 72-page motion, which cites the affidavits, also accused Blackwater guards of boasting of kills, taking mind-altering drugs, steroids and using child prostitutes.

Mr Prince is accused of smuggling illegal weapons into Iraq on his private aircraft. He is accused of allowing his guards to use illegal exploding bullets “to inflict maximum damage on Iraqis”. He is also accused of racketeering and tax evasion.

The former Marine alleged that numerous incidents of excessive force were videotaped, watched at the end of the day, and then erased.

The affidavits and motion have been posted on the website of the Centre for Constitutional Rights, which is representing the Iraqi plaintiffs.

Blackwater was unavailable to comment to The Times yesterday.

Source: Times

The White Man's Burden
Rudyard Kipling


Take up the White Man's burden--
Send forth the best ye breed--
Go, bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need;
To wait, in heavy harness,
On fluttered folk and wild--
Your new-caught sullen peoples,
Half devil and half child.

Take up the White Man's burden--
In patience to abide,
To veil the threat of terror
And check the show of pride;
By open speech and simple,
An hundred times made plain,
To seek another's profit
And work another's gain.

Take up the White Man's burden--
The savage wars of peace--
Fill full the mouth of Famine,
And bid the sickness cease;
And when your goal is nearest
(The end for others sought)
Watch sloth and heathen folly
Bring all your hope to nought.

Take up the White Man's burden--
No iron rule of kings,
But toil of serf and sweeper--
The tale of common things.
The ports ye shall not enter,
The roads ye shall not tread,
Go, make them with your living
And mark them with your dead.

Take up the White Man's burden,
And reap his old reward--
The blame of those ye better
The hate of those ye guard--
The cry of hosts ye humour
(Ah, slowly!) toward the light:--
"Why brought ye us from bondage,
Our loved Egyptian night?"

Take up the White Man's burden--
Ye dare not stoop to less--
Nor call too loud on Freedom
To cloak your weariness.
By all ye will or whisper,
By all ye leave or do,
The silent sullen peoples
Shall weigh your God and you.

Take up the White Man's burden!
Have done with childish days--
The lightly-proffered laurel,
The easy ungrudged praise:
Comes now, to search your manhood
Through all the thankless years,
Cold, edged with dear-bought wisdom,
The judgment of your peers.

blackwater does have a suspicous history to it.
Hence they are in court - so the white society does not look kindly upon it at all.

nice diversion abu - but the best countries in africa were the ones run by whites.
Look at Zimbabawe once mugabe got his hands on it.
When blacks get control they kill the other tribes.

stick to the topic abu.
open a new thread if you wish

I won't be led by your deflection

abu_rashid wrote on Aug 7^th, 2009 at 7:43am:


You are very good Marxist for a Muslim jihadi.

mozzaok - I am just as against murder from any quarter.
some murders seem to be worse than others,

I love it when the progressive left get so confused they forget what the original argument was and end up siding with the real enemy.

mozza,

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Seems you're the one whose ignorance has been revealed. Somalia and Zimbabwe were not violent tribal Africans, they were centres of vast trade empires. Somalia in particular, since it was from the early days part of the Islamic world, which was the centre of all world trade.

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I didn't go on to praise Islamic colonialism at all, since Islam is not a colonialist ideology. Somalia (Or Banaadir as it was called under Islam) embraced Islam and became part of the Islamic world. There was no colonialism involved.

Better check your definition of colonialism. Just "being there" doesn't make Islam and Christianity equal in the way they interacted with the land, people and society.

Christianity colonised, Islam was embraced. That's why today, after the colonialist Christians have left, the people there are pretty much 100% Muslim, not Christian. Because they became Muslims, Islam didn't just come and rule over them and squeeze them for their resources and land.

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Islam didn't leave slavery as it's legacy, so this is a loaded question from the outset.

Besides I've already mentioned some of the greatness that existed under Islam in places like Somalia.

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Difference is the Muslim 'loonies' are just reactionaries who are behaving in a certain way because of the threat that looms over them. It is a temporary 'ailment'. For the Christian 'loonies' it's their modus operandi. That's the difference.