Officials: Blackwater guards offered limited immunity

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However, some kind of limited immunity was apparently offered by State Department investigators when they questioned the Blackwater personnel apparently involved in the shootings, the officials said.
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He also said that those limited protections(reference to the limited immunities above) "would not preclude a successful criminal prosecution,"



Thank you for your signed confessions of guilt.
And the deal we made for your immunity is off.
Get ready to go to jail guys !

lol !

Only in America you say ? Pity !


Meanwhile, Iraq's parliament is considering a draft bill that would require security companies operating in the country to obey Iraqi laws with no immunity, Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said Tuesday.

"All security companies operating in Iraq, those affiliated with them and non-Iraqi parties they have a contract with, are subject to Iraqi civil and penal laws," al-Dabbagh said. "There will be no immunity."


It's a muslim country.
If a muslim accuses a non muslim of something , the non muslim is automatically found guilty , not because anyone thinks he's guilty , but because it is a requirement of Islamic Law to make the life of the non muslim as hard as you possibly can so as to force him to convert.


You take away their immunity , they're leaving.
You give them immunity they shoot innocents.

You just can't win , can you ?
No , you can't. You can't be a civilian and a soldier at the same time. It's a contradiction , and this whole "civilian security agency" is now having that contradiction exposed for all the world to see. You're either a soldier and subject to being shot by your commander for disobedience, or your a civilian and all your commander can do is fire you and ship you back stateside. And civilians not subject to military dicipline have no business in the war zone. Especially not with guns in their hands.

Get under proper military authority and subject to military dicipline (and thus immunity) , or get the hell out of Bagdad ... there really isn't a third option.


The U.S. House of Representatives approved a measure last month that would punish contractors working in a war zone if they committed an act that would be considered a crime under U.S. law.


Hey ! Lets kidnap a few upstandig Iraqi's children and have their parents issue false accusations against the security people ! Yeah , take them hostage and force them to be false witness. Then we can criminally prosecute every single security peron in the whole country , on the cheap , and drive them out !

oohhhh I like this game ! Can we fabricate some evidence too ?

Soliders belong in a war zone.
Civilians belong at home.
Never the twain shall meet.