Sunday, November 11, 2007
New security, same as the old security.
Business as usual in Iraq, if you are a merc. From the NY Times.
An Iraqi taxi driver was shot and killed on Saturday by a guard with DynCorp International, a private security company hired to protect American diplomats here, when a DynCorp convoy rolled past a knot of traffic on an exit ramp in Baghdad, the Iraqi Interior Ministry said Sunday.And the response will probably be a long time coming. What do these Iraqis think they are, a sovereign nation or something?
Three witnesses said the taxi had posed no threat to the convoy, and one of them, an Iraqi Army sergeant who inspected the car afterward, said it contained no weapons or explosive devices.
“They just killed a man and drove away,” Maj. Gen. Abdul-Karim Khalaf, an Interior Ministry spokesman, said in his office on Sunday afternoon. He added later, “We have opened an investigation, and we have contacted the company and told them about our accusations, and we are still waiting for their response.”
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Unfortunate but very likely possible that what is perceived as a threat to an innocent non-security minded and untrained mind such as the witnesses who claim there was no threat. In Iraq, every vehicle that appears to purposefully get close to your convoy is percieved as a threat. His potential bomb could easily take out half of the vehicles in a 7 or 8 vehicle convoy. A shame that the man died and I hope it was done without any wrong doing.
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