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These guys never did give me a warm fuzzy...ever since I heard of them a couple of years ago. Unlike the military, they really don't seem to answer to anyone. I hope if they are found guilty they put a few of them on trial for murder.
I know one guy who works for them or whatever. I asked what he did for them and he said "I'm pretty much a gun slinger". That also has cartoonish sound.
Ours. We may not like 'em, and we sure as hell don't want 'em, but we take care of our own. Murderers or not, we take care of our own.
Umm...point was that they're legally immune in Iraq. Are their actions while abroad subject to American law?
Aiding and abetting the enemy? Murder? Where there's a will, the government will find a way. And frankly, I'd be happy for once.
The government is considering changing the law at the moment. However, all foreign contractors contractors are immune from prosecution under all Iraqi civil and criminal law, under Order 17 introduced by the Coalition Provisional Authority.
