Nisour Square massacre event
also: Nisor Square, Nizor Square, 2000 massacre in Baghdad, massacre, Nisour Square shooting, NYSERF Square, Nassau Square, Nazor Square, Nisan Square Massacre, nicer square incident, Nazor Square massacre, Nassau Square Massacre
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Claims (9)
Blackwater carried_out_attack
Nisour Square massacre documented
“17 dead and 24 wounded. The tragedy, the latest atrocity of war, drew more attention than ever before to the consequences of privatizing war. While the incident at Fallujah in 2004 had earned Blackwater the label Bush Private Army, what hap…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 5 @ 5:54
Blackwater carried_out_attack
Nisour Square massacre documented
“The judge had dropped all allegations against four employees charged with the deaths of the 17 Iraqi civilians in Nisour Square, citing missteps by the Department of Justice. The State Department reportedly did threaten to deny the firm con…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 9 @ 42:55
Nicholas Slayton involved_in
Nisour Square massacre documented
“Thank you, Colonel, and thank everyone for attending here today on Spaces and Rumble. I was doing some questions to, well, asking Grok about the Nassar Square trial. And according to what happened and the whole deal, Nicholas Slayton, Paul …”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Hagedorn Part 4 @ 46:51
Paul Slough involved_in
Nisour Square massacre documented
“Thank you, Colonel, and thank everyone for attending here today on Spaces and Rumble. I was doing some questions to, well, asking Grok about the Nassar Square trial. And according to what happened and the whole deal, Nicholas Slayton, Paul …”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Hagedorn Part 4 @ 46:51
Blackwater carried_out_attack
Nisour Square massacre documented
“was under a blinding spotlight for on the 16th, Blackwater contractors opened fire with automatic weapons and grenade launchers on a busy street west of central Baghdad, killing 17 Iraqi civilians, including women and children, and wounding…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Hagedorn Part 4 @ 35:43
Dustin Hurd involved_in
Nisour Square massacre documented
“Thank you, Colonel, and thank everyone for attending here today on Spaces and Rumble. I was doing some questions to, well, asking Grok about the Nassar Square trial. And according to what happened and the whole deal, Nicholas Slayton, Paul …”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Hagedorn Part 4 @ 46:51
Nisour Square massacre carried_out_attack
Blackwater host_asserted
“by the quote-unquote trade association of private military contractors in September 2008 based upon the outrage of the Nazor Square massacre that had happened just a year before to kind of circle the wagons, if you will. And the conference …”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 6 @ 1:17
Evan Liberty involved_in
Nisour Square massacre documented
“Thank you, Colonel, and thank everyone for attending here today on Spaces and Rumble. I was doing some questions to, well, asking Grok about the Nassar Square trial. And according to what happened and the whole deal, Nicholas Slayton, Paul …”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Hagedorn Part 4 @ 46:51
Jeremy Ridgway testified
Nisour Square massacre documented
“turret gunners in the convoy continued to fire their machine guns into civilian vehicles. One of the gunners, Jeremy Ridgway, would later testify these were vehicles that posed no threat to the convoy at all. Ridgway was the contractor who …”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Hagedorn Part 4 @ 39:27
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▶ 35:43
was under a blinding spotlight for on the 16th, Blackwater contractors opened fire with automatic weapons and grenade launchers on a busy street west of central Baghdad, killing 17 Iraqi civilians, including women and children, and wounding…
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The incident happened around noon in Nisor Square, a traffic circle outside of the fortified areas of Baghdad known as the International Zone or Green Zone. The convoy of four heavily armed trucks filled with 19 Blackwater contractors and u…
▶ 37:05
against the flow of traffic where they positioned themselves in a line on the southern half of the circle with the purpose of blocking traffic from entering the circle from the south or to the west to protect the U.S. diplomats from any dan…
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a 55-year-old that was shot in the head while riding a bus with her daughter, another person 28, another person 30, and then another person 56 that was also on the bus. Within 10 minutes, Nizor Square had become a death scene. As the Raven …
▶ 46:51
Thank you, Colonel, and thank everyone for attending here today on Spaces and Rumble. I was doing some questions to, well, asking Grok about the Nassar Square trial. And according to what happened and the whole deal, Nicholas Slayton, Paul …
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continued to function and the only one that they and there were a bazillion of include uh civil rights or not civil rights human rights things that happened while they were over there including but not limited to rape torture and on that we…
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And I will probably only I don't know that again, the chapters are not that big, but the next one coming up is a little bigger. And I don't really know if I can get both of these done. So anyway. OK. Few Americans would ever know the names …
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17 dead and 24 wounded. The tragedy, the latest atrocity of war, drew more attention than ever before to the consequences of privatizing war. While the incident at Fallujah in 2004 had earned Blackwater the label Bush Private Army, what hap…
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Waxman issued two caveats, that facts and not ideology should guide any judgment of Blackwater and the industry on the part of Congress, and that there should be no question directly related to nicer square incident, which the FBI was curre…
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provided intelligence, and the aircraft was shot down. H.R. 1591 never emerged from committee, a fact that soon typified a pattern. A shocking event spawns media attention and legislative action, but no legislative action ever happened. The…
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There were wake-up calls before NYSERF Square, especially Fallujah and Abu Ghraib, but the gap between the companies and oversight was never closed. In 2004, everyone informed about it was certain there would be another incident, and unfort…
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to provide Congress copies of all contracts and task orders in excess of $5 million. This bill would die in committee as well. But months later, after the Nazor Square, she thought the prospects had improved for such legislation. Thus, at t…
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defining operating procedures, oversight, and monitoring on an interagency level. It was, however, limited to Iraq. Nothing was ever said about Afghanistan. Then in January 2008, there was another action prompted by the October hearing and …
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by the quote-unquote trade association of private military contractors in September 2008 based upon the outrage of the Nazor Square massacre that had happened just a year before to kind of circle the wagons, if you will. And the conference …
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The easily identifiable, strikingly vulnerable pickup trucks and SUVs driven by security companies were magnets for insurgents, militia, disgruntled Iraqis, and everyone else in search of a target. Basically trying to defend the fact that t…
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and other industry critics was that the flow of contracts to private military security companies accused of human rights violations, murder, bribery, among other transgressions, continued at an even faster pace with no resolution of crimina…