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September 12, 2005
Police Making it Worse and Now We Have Mercenaries in NO
What is happening here? We have mercenaries in the streets of New Orleans and police threatening evacuees attempting to enter Gretna, LA from New Orleans. And, as reported yesterday, a detainment camp in Oklahoma.
From the San Francisco Chronicle:
..."They told us that there would be no Superdomes in their city,'' the couple wrote. "These were code words that if you are poor and black, you are not crossing the Mississippi River -- and you weren't getting out of New Orleans.''And when exhausted hurricane victims set up temporary shelters on the highway, Gretna police came back a few hours later, fired shots into the air again, told people to "get the f -- off the bridge" and used a helicopter to blow down all the makeshift shelters, the paramedics said...
From Alternet:
Heavily armed paramilitary mercenaries from the Blackwater private security firm, infamous for their work in Iraq, are openly patrolling the streets of New Orleans. Some of the mercenaries say they have been "deputized" by the Louisiana governor; indeed some are wearing gold Louisiana state law enforcement badges on their chests and Blackwater photo identification cards on their arms. They say they are on contract with the Department of Homeland Security and have been given the authority to use lethal force. Several mercenaries we spoke with said they had served in Iraq on the personal security details of the former head of the U.S. occupation, L. Paul Bremer and the former U.S. ambassador to Iraq, John Negroponte...
Posted by Lyn Wall at September 12, 2005 08:10 AM | Permalink
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