Just read the following at Yahoo news by MATTHEW LEE, Associated Press Writer. It is a detailed article about weapons smuggled and apparently sold by Blackwater to groups in Iraq including the PKK. This is the group that the Turkish Government keeps threatening to invade Kurdish area of Iraq for staging bombing raids into Turkey.
Beginnings of article:
WASHINGTON - Federal prosecutors are investigating whether employees of the private security firm Blackwater USA illegally smuggled into Iraq weapons that may have been sold on the black market and ended up in the hands of a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, officials said Friday.
The U.S. Attorney's Office in Raleigh, N.C., where Blackwater is based, is handling the investigation with help from Pentagon and State Department auditors who have concluded there is enough evidence to file charges, the officials told The Associated Press.
Remember the thousands of unaccounted for weapons that disappeared in Iraq? Apparently, Blackwater personnel took them and were retailing them to the PKK and possibly other groups. Two of the Blackwater guys have confessed and are providing information. Article says the Pentagon and Justice Department have been looking into the matter for a while. I think Gonzo and the new guy Keisler (co-founder of the Federalist Society and a Cheney intimate who advocates that Cheney do an end-around Bush and just have the military and have Israel attack Iran)and who was slid unannounced into place as acting Attorney General 24 hours after it was announced that Solictor General Paul Clement would be acting AG, would have suppressed info on this investigation but after the shooting incident on Sunday knew the Iraqi government was probably going to spill the beans.
Article said Turkey's military recovered weapons from captured PKK members,gave serial number info to the US and
protested that new US weapons were in the hands of a "terrorist organization". Ha, Ha. Bet nothing comes of this. It will fade from view