State Department Coverup on Blackwater Revealed

T. Christian Miller, reporting for The Los Angeles Times, writes,
"Even as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice defended her department's oversight of private security contractors, new evidence surfaced Thursday that the US sought to conceal details of Blackwater shootings of Iraqi civilians more than two years ago."
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The World of Private "Security": Unleashed, the Fat Cats of War

Kim Sengupta and Charlie Gilmour, reporting for The Independent, write: "In Iraq, no one expects anything to be done. The widely prevalent view was expressed by Hassan Jabar Salman, a lawyer who was shot four times in the back as he attempted to get away from the American convoy. 'This is not the first time they have killed innocent people, and they will do it again, you'll see,' he said as he sat swathed in bandages at Yarmukh Hospital. 'Nothing, absolutely nothing will be done.'"