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"There are lots of bodies over there, a lot of people have been killed, mostly Ossetians, but also Georgians, they had American emblems on their forearms and they were in black uniforms," she said.

Black uniforms are a trademark of Blackwater and DynCorp mercenaries (see Chris Hedges, America's Holy Warriors). DynCorp's presence in Eastern Europe is well documented, particularly in occupied Bosnia where it engaged in sex-trafficking and prostitution.

by vbo on Sun Aug 10th, 2008 at 10:28:13 PM EST
This makes me sick.

I don't trust Infowars, but I don't doubt the the Georgians figure that hiring "private security contractors" would beef up their chances.

And of course anything untoward that they do doesn't fall back on the Georgian government.

Thanks for the post, I'd like to see a source else than infowars, but I don't discount the possibility that this is true.

And I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage-Billy Bragg

by ManfromMiddletown (manfrommiddletown at lycos dot com) on Sun Aug 10th, 2008 at 11:36:03 PM EST
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I understand...I don't trust anyone nowadays.How can one trust CNN for example??? Still we may make a picture by watching/reading  them all on all sides...
by vbo on Mon Aug 11th, 2008 at 12:03:12 AM EST
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It checked out on Kommersant and the link to TV.

I don't know if they meant black skin or black uniform.

Blackwater of course has black uniforms.....

And I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage-Billy Bragg

by ManfromMiddletown (manfrommiddletown at lycos dot com) on Mon Aug 11th, 2008 at 12:17:25 AM EST
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publically using and justifying the the use of mercenaries in Iraq to make huge profits for certain companies and to make up for military shortages and a lack of politcal will to reintroduce the draft needed to fight all those lovely neo-con fantasy wars, the use of mercenatries by all and sundry was back.

A bit like ignoring the massive breach of international law to create the independent Kosovo was always going to lead to Georgian breakaways wanting independence.

by observer393 on Mon Aug 11th, 2008 at 04:21:48 AM EST
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There was a loophole, because they were nationals of a party to the conflict.

That's not the case if Blackwater is in Georgia.

And I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage-Billy Bragg

by ManfromMiddletown (manfrommiddletown at lycos dot com) on Mon Aug 11th, 2008 at 04:51:11 AM EST
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Bah! A good chunk the US military isn't composed of "nationals of a party to the conflict" - the US has a long history of recruiting Latin American gangsters into their "all-volunteer" army with the promise of American citizenship after they've served their time in Hell. Which is really convenient, because those Latin American gangsters are already familiar with the modus operandi of the US military - after all, most of them have been trained by the US military in the first place.

Blackwater is not operationally different, as far as I can tell, except that the real US soldiers complain that the Blackwater goons are sloppy and trigger-happy and that corners are cut on their equipment. Sounds a lot like your standard outsourcing: The same service, just more expensive and a of lower quality.

- Jake

If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Mon Aug 11th, 2008 at 11:12:41 AM EST
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