Blackwater Shooting Under Investigation

By:
G. Elena Calero
Mariana Almeida
Solange Vallejo

Iraq and the United States have agreed to set up a joint commission to examine security of US government officials in Iraq due to the controversy regarding the killing of several Iraqi Civilians by Blackwater Securities. Blackwater securities are now under investigation for their questionable actions.

Blackwater claimed that the shootings were done due to a car bombing but the others question their defence because the car bombing was too far away from the incident.

According to Blackwater USA’s website, it is the most comprehensive professional military, law enforcement, security, peacekeeping, and stability operations company in the world.

Stemming from this unfortunate event, the White House had a briefing today on several issues including the Blackwater incident.


When asked about the events Press Secretary Dana Perrino said, “Deputy spokesman Tom Casey at the State Department is making an announcement right about now, if he hasn't already, regarding a joint commission of inquiry that the Iraqis and the United States are going to set up in order to look into what happened and to recommend any sort of policy changes that need to made in the future.”

Perrino says it is too early to make any comment but President Bush regrets the events and he along with his staff will conduct a full investigation and participation by the U.S.

The State Department Tom Casey said, “This..demonstrates that we and the Iraqis are committed to working together, both to address the activities or the response to the specific incident that’s occurred, as well as to look at the broader issues of the operation of personal security details in Iraq.”