Fallujah

Menacing the Mercenaries

The battle Blackwater Security, the favored private militia of the favored few, fears most is coming nearer. From the NC News & Observer:

A North Carolina-based security contractor lost a federal appeal Thursday in a wrongful-death lawsuit brought by the families of four men killed and publicly mutilated in Fallujah, Iraq, in 2004
The decision by the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., means that after a year and a half of motions and appeals, the lawsuit can move forward in Wake County Superior Court and that Blackwater Security Consulting will likely have to give up records and oral depositions about the incident, said Marc Miles, an attorney for the families.

That highlighted part is what they fear worst. And this news may be even better than it sounds..  Read more