{"id":1898,"date":"2004-04-06T15:19:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-06T19:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1898"},"modified":"2004-04-06T15:19:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-06T19:19:00","slug":"privateering-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2004\/04\/06\/15\/19\/privateering-in-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Privateering In Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that as well as defending US administrative facilties, Blackwater <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A53059-2004Apr5.html\">is establishing its own private mercenary base in Iraq<\/a>. Looks like the fun never ends &#8211; Blackwater get live Iraqis for target practice, and Al Qaida likewise get live Americans to target. It&#8217;s a match made in heaven!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Webstore\/Iraq%20War\/Blackwater%20commandos%20and%20a%20U.S.%20soldier%20defend%20the%20Coalition%20Provisional%20Authority%20headquarters%20in%20Najaf-l\"><IMG SRC=\"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Webstore\/Iraq%20War\/Blackwater%20commandos%20and%20a%20U.S.%20soldier%20defend%20the%20Coalition%20Provisional%20Authority%20headquarters%20in%20Najaf-s\" WIDTH=\"228\" HEIGHT=\"120\" alt=\"Blackwater commandos and a U.S. soldier defend the Coalition Provisional Authority headquarters in Najaf.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A53059-2004Apr5.html\">An attack by hundreds of Iraqi militia members on the U.S. government&#8217;s headquarters in Najaf on Sunday was repulsed not by the U.S. military, but by eight commandos from a private security firm &#8230; Before U.S. reinforcements could arrive, the firm, Blackwater Security Consulting, sent in its own helicopters amid an intense firefight to resupply its commandos with ammunition and to ferry out a wounded Marine &#8230; Thousands of armed private security contractors are operating in Iraq in a wide variety of missions and exchanging fire with Iraqis every day &#8230; Blackwater has applied to occupy a former MIG air base near Baghdad as a counterterrorism training facility for Iraqi forces.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2004_03_28_WeekArchive.php#'108093718787719401'\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that as well as defending US administrative facilties, Blackwater is establishing its own private mercenary base in Iraq. Looks like the fun never ends &#8211; Blackwater get live Iraqis for target practice,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}