That's right, unbelievable but true! Don't know what else to say. I looked and couldn't see any other diary mentioning this. I realize that this should be on an open thread but I thought that people would like to comment on this.
Here is the link
http://www.charter.net/...
Blackwater Likely to Be Out of Iraq
Wednesday, October 17, 2007 7:08 PM EDT
The Associated Press
By ANNE GEARAN AP Diplomatic Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — A State Department review of private security guards for diplomats in Iraq is unlikely to recommend firing Blackwater USA over the deaths of 17 Iraqis last month, but the company probably is on the way out of that job, U.S. officials said Wednesday.
Blackwater's work escorting U.S. diplomats outside the protected Green Zone in Baghdad expires in May, one official said, and other officials told The Associated Press they expect the North Carolina company will not continue to work for the embassy after that.
It is likely that Blackwater does not compete to keep the job, one official said. Blackwater probably will not be fired outright or even "eased out," the official added, but there is a mutual feeling that the Sept. 16 shooting deaths mean the company cannot continue in its current role.
WOW!