Hmmm, Ammo Doesn't Match Blackwater Guns

[Annie]

Wonder if this will make front pages?

The Associated Press: No forensic match for ammo in Blackwater shooting

No forensic match for ammo in Blackwater shooting
By MATT APUZZO – 2 days ago ed: First I've seen of this

WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI scientists were unable to match bullets from a deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting to guns carried by Blackwater Worldwide security guards, according to laboratory reports that leave open the possibility that insurgents also fired in the crowded intersection.

Five Blackwater guards face manslaughter and weapons charges for their role in the shooting, which left 17 Iraqis dead and inflamed anti-U.S. sentiment abroad. Prosecutors say the contractors launched an unprovoked attack on civilians with machine guns and grenade launchers. The guards maintain their convoy was ambushed by insurgents.
The FBI lab reports, obtained by The Associated Press from someone not involved in the criminal case, allow for both possibilities.

Investigators recovered .30-caliber bullets from a survivor, a Blackwater truck and around Baghdad's Nisoor Square. Scientists could not determine whether those bullets came from .30-caliber Blackwater machine guns.

The AK-47 rifles favored by many Iraqi insurgents also fire .30-caliber bullets....

 

[driveby]

Wonder if this will make front pages?

No.....

 

[Old Rocks]

Why should it? Do you think that the Blackwater brownshirts were stupid enough to let the investigators have the actual guns at the scene?

Blackwater is a private army, a mercenary arm that should not exist. It had potential to become the SS of the Conservatives here in the states. Even to the point of being used here in a national emergency.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Why should it? Do you think that the Blackwater brownshirts were stupid enough to let the investigators have the actual guns at the scene?

Blackwater is a private army, a mercenary arm that should not exist. It had potential to become the SS of the Conservatives here in the states. Even to the point of being used here in a national emergency.

Lovely little attempt to inflame passions with bullshit rhetoric. The only fascists around here are Liberals. But of course they just want to control us for our own good.

By the way the AK-47 fires 7.62 , is that the same as .30?