It would seem even the members of the USA Coalition have their issues with the activities of the Bush/Cheney private militia.
Blackwater clue to kidnap of five Britons in Baghdad (click here)
A NEW theory to explain why five Britons were kidnapped in an audacious terrorist operation at the ministry of finance in Baghdad at the end of May emerged yesterday.
As the hostages spent their 117th day in captivity, Matthew Degn, a former American policy adviser to the Iraqi government, said he thought they had been seized in revenge for the fatal shooting of an interior ministry driver by guards of the US private security company Blackwater a few days earlier.
It was Blackwater’s shooting of at least 11 civilians in a Baghdad square last Sunday that prompted an open row between the Iraqi government and Washington days before Nouri al-Maliki, the prime minister, meets President George W Bush this week.
Degn, who advised the interior ministry, believes the mistaken killing of its driver triggered the kidnapping of the Britons. Their nationality was irrelevant, he thinks: what mattered to the kidnappers was that they were part of the American-led coalition and were easy targets....
