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April 5, 2012

Videos Show Blackwater Guards Running Down Woman in Iraq 
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Harper's Magazine has posted online a number of videos purportedly
showing Blackwater guards in action in Iraq. One video dated April 1,
2006, shows an armored vehicle swerving to run over a woman in a black
full-length burka as she attempted to cross the street. None of the
vehicles in the armed convoy stopped after she was run over. Other
videos show armed vehicles smashing into cars driven by Iraqi civilians
in an order to move them out of the way. Harper's reports that the
Blackwater tape ended with the inscription: "In support of security,
peace, freedom and democracy everywhere.”



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