BLACKWATER BODYGUARDS SHOOT NEW YORK TIMES DOG DEAD IN IRAQ
December 20th 2007 00:32
MediaBistro reports that the US embassy in Iraq is investigating another deadly shooting incident involving its Blackwater bodyguards — this time of The New York Times' dog, or ‘K-9’ according to Blackwater’s rather stupid quasi-military jargon.
Staff at the newspaper's Baghdad bureau said Blackwater bodyguards shot Hentish the hound tone motherless dead last week before a visit by a US diplomat to the Times compound.
The Australian this morning reports that Blackwater spokeswoman Anne Tyrrell said the dog had attacked one of Blackwater's bomb-sniffer dogs while a security team was sweeping the compound for explosives.
”When those efforts failed, the K-9 handler unfortunately was forced to use a pistol to protect the company's K-9 and himself,” she said in an email to Reuters.
- From MediaBlab
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