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04/05/2004 Archived Entry: "Wanna hear a really good story?"
Wanna hear a really good story?
If this isn't the wierdest 'cover your ass' story mixed with equal parts Rambo and Terminator, then I'm the Queen of Norway. Looks like someone decided that Blackwater needed some good PR...
An attack by hundreds of Iraqi militia members on the U.S. government's headquarters in Najaf on Sunday was repulsed not by the U.S. military, but by eight commandos from a private security firm, according to sources familiar with the incident.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, the sources said.
Come on. Next the WaPo will try to tell us that Bush is still a popular preznit.
Replies: 2 people speak up
I'm calling bullshit.
Posted by Jason @ 04/06/2004 11:32 AM NY
I hear they've already sold the movie rights to this incident to the folks who did the latest "Alamo." They figure with a little repainting they can reuse the same sets.
Posted by Xan @ 04/06/2004 11:55 AM NY
