NY Times: “Blackwater Shot Our Dog”
Shit, they missed, they were aiming for your managing editor…or was it your ad director?
BAGHDAD - The U.S. embassy in Iraq is investigating another deadly shooting incident involving its Blackwater bodyguards — this time of the New York Times’s dog.
Staff at the newspaper’s Baghdad bureau said Blackwater bodyguards shot the dog dead last week before a visit by a U.S. diplomat to the Times compound.
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.
“The K-9 handler made several unsuccessful attempts to get the dog to retreat, including placing himself between the dogs. 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 e-mail to Reuters.
The U.S. embassy employs about 1,000 armed Blackwater staff to protect American diplomats in Baghdad.
State Department investigators have made two follow-up visits to the Times compound to investigate the shooting of the dog, correspondent Alissa Rubin said.
“They were very solicitous and I thought took the incident very seriously,” Rubin said. “It’s not a dog that everyone’s close to in the compound.
(Reuters)
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may-be hthe dog couldno’t smell blackwater bodies, they haven’t exactly the right pheromons
December 18th, 2007 at 2:17 pm“The dog that needed to be put down” is a great analogy for the NYT itself.
December 18th, 2007 at 2:30 pmDaaaammmnn. Are you sure that dog isn’t dead already???
Talk about the hound from Hell.
December 18th, 2007 at 3:46 pmThat’s just GREAT! Now who is the NYTimes gonna get to go out as a “stringer” and bring back “bad news” stories in Iraq?
Bush’s fault, yet again!
December 18th, 2007 at 4:20 pmIf the dog in question was attacking a bomb-sniffing animal or any other animal engaged in policing activities, then Blackwater or the US Military had every right to protect their animal compatriots.
Frankly, they should of shot the NY Times asshole on the ground. Fuck the NY Slimes. Damn weasels.
December 18th, 2007 at 4:36 pmF*ck that, I would have shot the owner of the dog first..
December 18th, 2007 at 6:50 pmShould have given the hound a C4 biscuit before dipatching him. That would have made for a story of excessive force.
December 18th, 2007 at 7:42 pmfranchies was that half-assed english for a swipe at Blackwater security? Or where you trying to make a point. In either case that was an epic failure.
December 19th, 2007 at 5:56 amMike from the Republic of Texas,
hehe, ya need to make your imagination fonction
anyway, I ment that the dog was aggressive, cause he couldn’t find the love pheromons in the smell of security guis
December 19th, 2007 at 8:27 amLEARN ENGLISH IF YOUR USING AN ENGLISH SITE!!!
December 19th, 2007 at 10:01 amOnce again you recieve an F.
an F ? come on, I bet your alliens are worth
December 19th, 2007 at 10:26 am“worst”, I like to give you reason
December 19th, 2007 at 10:29 amYou ever wonder why everyone ignores you its because they can’t understand you. Neither can I, that said, FIND A BETTER TRANSLATOR!!! Your words don’t even make sense in that order.
December 19th, 2007 at 4:05 pmdepends if you really want to understand, seems you don’t want it, so forget it, go to the bar and have a pint on my charge
December 19th, 2007 at 4:17 pm