Blackwater has no intention of leaving Iraq

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Blackwater Seeks New Chief for State Dep't Contracts
By Spencer Ackerman - October 19, 2007, 9:58AM

The State Department is floating the idea that Blackwater's Iraq contract should be allowed to expire in May. But Blackwater clearly doesn't want that to happen. And it's seeking some new blood to reignite the spark that's gone out of their relationship.

Via R.J. Hillhouse's excellent contractor blog, it seems that Blackwater is investing in a new head of Iraq contracts. Yesterday, Blackwater posted a job opening for a regional coordinator on State's Worldwide Protective Services Contract, the official title for State contractor services on Iraq. Perhaps Blackwater just wants to have a good caretaker during its final months in Baghdad. Or maybe, as Hillhouse writes, it's "a sign that Blackwater is not planning on leaving Iraq anytime soon."

The job will operate out of Blackwater's Moyock, North Carolina offices. Interested applicants should be able to work "in a busy office environment" that's "subject to frequent interruptions" (which may or may not include FBI agents executing search warrants).

[Jim__]

1. Can Blackwater overrule decisions made by the Iraqi government? - n/t

[shadowknows69]

2. Dick Cheney is currently the Iraqi government

so I think that one answers itself.

[rodeodance]

3. Maliki does not seem to have much power

[NNN0LHI]

4. The Iraqi government was hanged

These thugs who Bush has holed up in the Green Zone are puppets.

Don

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5. You can thank Bremer for making it so that Blackwater has to answer to NOBODY:

"Order 17 is a document little-read today, yet it essentially granted to every foreigner in the country connected to the occupation enterprise the full freedom of the land, not to be interfered with in any way by Iraqis or any Iraqi political or legal institution."

And Blackwater is exempt from the Uniform Code of Military Justice, so essentially Blackwater operates outside of all laws.

Story at:
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20071008/engelhardt