Blackwater mercenaries operating in New Orleans
Mercenaries from the Blackwater firm — who have many forces in Iraq — are reportedly operating in New Orleans, apparently getting paid by the Department of Homeland Security. They've been told they'll be there for up to six months.
Says GlobalResearch, quoting US Army Special Forces Master Sergeant Stan Goff, ``Blackwater USA is a guns-for-hire training-and-recruitment outfit on a 6,000 acre military training compound on the northern coastal plain of Moyock, North Carolina, a stone's throw from the Virginia border. What differentiates them from the crazed, ex-military flotsam that rampaged through Congo in the 1960's is that they are (1) incorporated, (2) they use legally recognized financial/contract instruments, and (3), they work for recognized governments. The latter is a very finely drawn point, because governments frequently hire these legalized mercenaries at the insistence, and with the support, of multinational corporations who just happen as it turns out to be in the same place these outfits are doing their security. On the combat end, Blackwater USA is mostly ex-SEALs with a few former SWAT cops thrown in, run by a blustering hyper-macho ex-SEAL named Gary Jackson.''
They will join the other Army divisions already beginning "combat operations" in the city. ``This place is going to look like Little Somalia, Brig. Gen. Gary Jones, commander of the Louisiana National Guards Joint Task Force told Army Times Friday as hundreds of armed troops under his charge prepared to launch a massive citywide security mission from a staging area outside the Louisiana Superdome. Were going to go out and take this city back. This will be a combat operation to get this city under control.''
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