When Marines Meet Mercenaries.
---NOTE: MERCENARY is the word the MARINES were using.---
RENO, Nevada (AP) -- Security contractors were heckled, humiliated and physically abused by U.S. Marines in Iraq while jailed for 72 hours with insurgents, one of the detainees said Friday.
"It was disbelief the whole time. I couldn't believe what was happening," said Matt Raiche, 34, an ex-Marine who was one of 16 American and three Iraqi contractors detained at Camp Falluja last month.
"I just found it crazy that we were being held with terrorists, that we were put in the same facility with them," he told The Associated Press in an interview at his lawyer's office. "They were calling us a rogue mercenary team."
Defense officials said Thursday that the security guards for Charlotte, North Carolina-based Zapata Engineering were detained for three days. The contractors fired on Iraqi civilian cars and U.S. forces in Falluja, 40 miles west of Baghdad, the Defense officials said.
Company president Manuel Zapata said the only shot fired by his workers was a warning blast after they noticed a vehicle following them. (More on Falluja incident)
The military has denied the contractors were abused. No charges have been filed against any of the contractors, who the military said were separated from suspected insurgents.
Raiche, of Dayton, Nevada, said the contractors were stopped and taken into custody on May 28. He said a Marine told him that shots had been fired, and Raiche told him, "It wasn't us."
Raiche said several of the contractors were interrogated before they were released June 1 with no official explanation for their detention.
Raiche said guards intimidated the detainees with dogs, made them strip and told them to wear towels over their heads going to the restroom, so insurgents in the facility would not recognize and harm them, Raiche said.
One of his colleagues was slammed to the ground by a guard, he said.
"His head bounced off the asphalt." Raiche said. "He told me he heard one guard say to another, `If he moves, let the dog loose."'
Raiche said his colleague told him that a guard then reached down and "squeezed his testicles so hard he could barely move."
When Raiche first arrived at the facility, he said a guard ordered him to the ground and put a knee in his back. He said he heard one Marine say, "How does it feel now making that big contractor money?"
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---Sooo let me get this straight. You can ride around shooting at innocent Iraqis at random, then deliberately fire on MARINES and NO CHARGES ARE FILED?...OH and BTW..MERCENARIES ARE UNAMERICAN and you cowards cry awful easy when war profits come hard you chickenshit warhawking spree killers!
Whaaa we got abused, they treated us like Iraqis..WHAAAWHAAA FUCKING WHAAA...Welcome to the party assholes.----
RENO, Nevada (AP) -- Security contractors were heckled, humiliated and physically abused by U.S. Marines in Iraq while jailed for 72 hours with insurgents, one of the detainees said Friday.
"It was disbelief the whole time. I couldn't believe what was happening," said Matt Raiche, 34, an ex-Marine who was one of 16 American and three Iraqi contractors detained at Camp Falluja last month.
"I just found it crazy that we were being held with terrorists, that we were put in the same facility with them," he told The Associated Press in an interview at his lawyer's office. "They were calling us a rogue mercenary team."
Defense officials said Thursday that the security guards for Charlotte, North Carolina-based Zapata Engineering were detained for three days. The contractors fired on Iraqi civilian cars and U.S. forces in Falluja, 40 miles west of Baghdad, the Defense officials said.
Company president Manuel Zapata said the only shot fired by his workers was a warning blast after they noticed a vehicle following them. (More on Falluja incident)
The military has denied the contractors were abused. No charges have been filed against any of the contractors, who the military said were separated from suspected insurgents.
Raiche, of Dayton, Nevada, said the contractors were stopped and taken into custody on May 28. He said a Marine told him that shots had been fired, and Raiche told him, "It wasn't us."
Raiche said several of the contractors were interrogated before they were released June 1 with no official explanation for their detention.
Raiche said guards intimidated the detainees with dogs, made them strip and told them to wear towels over their heads going to the restroom, so insurgents in the facility would not recognize and harm them, Raiche said.
One of his colleagues was slammed to the ground by a guard, he said.
"His head bounced off the asphalt." Raiche said. "He told me he heard one guard say to another, `If he moves, let the dog loose."'
Raiche said his colleague told him that a guard then reached down and "squeezed his testicles so hard he could barely move."
When Raiche first arrived at the facility, he said a guard ordered him to the ground and put a knee in his back. He said he heard one Marine say, "How does it feel now making that big contractor money?"
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---Sooo let me get this straight. You can ride around shooting at innocent Iraqis at random, then deliberately fire on MARINES and NO CHARGES ARE FILED?...OH and BTW..MERCENARIES ARE UNAMERICAN and you cowards cry awful easy when war profits come hard you chickenshit warhawking spree killers!
Whaaa we got abused, they treated us like Iraqis..WHAAAWHAAA FUCKING WHAAA...Welcome to the party assholes.----
posted by Christy at 2:13 PM
1 Comments:
Hmmmmmmm Sorry Girlfriend this one I cannot agree with you on,It is all dirty dirty dirty,It is your govt that has allowed the contractors in to grab all the money, they are quite happy with the situation as it is the bush administration,If the soldiers and marines do not like the situation, that the contractors are getting the bulk of the money over there and they are being paid a pittance, and losing all their benefits, to die for a lying corrupt govt, why the hell did they vote them back into power and why the hell did they not make sure that their votes were counted when they should have been counted, because as a group of constituents they should have been the ones to make sure this administration should never have gotten back into power. We know this is happening over there corruption at the highest level all against the Geneva Covention, and this way no one is punished and your corrupt Govt still gets away with everything they are getting away with now, and no one to change it. Does not matter that they were contractors getting hugh money you govt allows it, and the abuse still goes on without check, on innocent Iraqi people or so it looks like American contractors.
WELCOME TO THE REAL WAR OF G W BUSH AND HIS ADMINISTRATION CORRUPTION CORRUPTION CORRUPTION ALL THE WAY
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