Busy Little Beavers
Sep 22nd, 2007 at 9:25 am by Susie
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.
Do incidents involving Blackwater shootings make it into U.S. government statistics about violence in Iraq?
And, more to the point of this story, why would Blackwater involve itself in smuggling weapons, when the Army was apparently giving guns away?