Blackwater hearings repeat on cspan now!

[wildbilln864]

Kucinich is on now! I like him alot!

[KoKo]

1. Thanks for Heads Up for those who didn't catch online today. Worth a tape of it

to watch later...it's long...but very good watch to see what these contracters have been up to.

[annm4peace]

4. the Women speaking are incredible

The 4 women who's loved ones were the 4 who were killed in Fallujah and burned and strung up.

Rep Darrell Issa was so disqusting.. One of the mothers Kathryn Helvenston-Wettengel really held her own. She was awesome and all three 3 women were so brave.

Last year I watched the hearings that happened of contractors who were killed in a convoy.. of course the Republican did not ask the hard questions.

Then I saw Iraq for Sale which was a documentary which included a couple of the women.

And now I watch this hearing today. I hope somethign comes of the hearings.

[immoderate]

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[bdamomma]

3. me too.

[annm4peace]

5. Now the Councel for Blackwater is speaking

They make me sick.. they wrap themselves in the American flag but many of us in the public know the truth. This company and others that don't protect the workers need to be shut down.

I also find it disqusting that things the military should be doing is given to these contractors whose only goal is to make money. They take our military trained individuals... when they have become the best.. all that investment that the military put into those indivduals so they can be used for a profit of Blackwater shareholders.

Now a KBR rep is speaking.. I hope they are shut down also.

[ftr23532]

6. I just tuned in and saw a Fluor exec testifying too. Here's some Fluor/bin Laden connections

Fluor is http://www.pbs.org/wsw/opinion/sergio20030319.html">up there with Halliburton and Bechtel in terms of construction contracting. This is from a http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/binladen/who/family.html">PBS Frontline article on the bin Laden family empire:

...
The Geneva-based SICO is the parent house for the Group's international financial activities and investments, with branches in London and Curacao. The Curacao branch, established in 1984, manages the bin Laden group's partnership with the American Daniels Realty Corporation (Duspic), part of the Fluor Corporation conglomerate. It is partly through the bin Ladens' influence that the Fluor group was one of the major recipients of reconstruction contracts in Kuwait.
...

Interesting, according to http://www.amazon.com/Dollars-Terror-Islam-Richard-Labeviere/dp/1892941066/sr=8-1/qid=1170906895/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-7142825-1263265?ie=UTF8&s=books">Dollars for Terror: The US and Islam, one of the folks sitting on board of SICO-Curacao (as of 1999) is Charles Tickle, http://www.danielcorp.com/bios.asp?action=form&formID=1847&recordID=94731">the CEO of Daniel Realty Corporation.

Heh. Go http://fortherecordessays.blogspot.com/2006/11/part-11-opaque-world-of-clearstream_11.html">here and skip down to "The SICO Family Affair" for lots more SICO connections (some of them get pretty tripped out).