Blackwater Assassins Posing as Aidworkers?

by Una M. · 2009-11-24 06:22:00 UTC
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The Nation writer Jeremy Scahill dropped a journalistic bombshell on the aid community yesterday in a story about private security contractor Blackwater's covert work in South Asia: Blackwater assassins have been working undercover as aidworkers in Pakistan and elsewhere in the region.

The English language doesn't contain profanity strong enough to express the outrage that revelation deserves. "Nobody even gives them a second thought," Scahill's unnamed source close to the notorious company said of the mercenaries posing as aidworkers.

I so sincerely hope Scahill's source --his one source for the entire story-- wasn't lying, or carelessly mischaracterizing, because make no mistake about it, that information, now out for the world to read, is going to get real aidworkers killed and jeopardize real relief operations.

This is going to be ruinous. I'm so angry I'm literally at a loss for words now.

[Photo:http://www.flickr.com/photos/osbornb/ / CC BY 2.0]

Una M.
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