[mikegi]

Blackwater guys get a little payback.

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[in the Arena]

ping...

[mikegi]

[Hit send too early]

This shows what happens when our guys aren't caught totally by surprise. Eight of them hold off hundreds of ragheads.

[Feiny]

Excellent.

[dts32041]

This is a Federal facility, how come the FPS (Federal Protective Service) was not there, oh yeah they are union and Blackwater isn't.

About using ex seals, damn somebody in the FEDGOV has gotten smart, to much talent floating around out in the civilian world to go to was just cause the retired.

[ExpatCanuck]

An attack by hundreds of Iraqi militia members ...

So now they are militia members? Kind of like freedom fighters, or Iraqi patriots, right?

One wonders where the real enemies are sometimes.

[Spruce]

Glorious! Payback indeed!

[lowbridge]

An attack by hundreds of Iraqi militia members on the U.S. government's headquarters in Najaf on Sunday was repulsed not by the U.S. military, but by eight commandos from a private security firm

Now thats private enterprise at work!

[lowbridge]

Good news.......

[dennisw]

Damn mercs!!!! :)

[BurbankKarl]

[GrandEagle]

Before U.S. reinforcements could arrive, the firm, Blackwater Security Consulting, sent in its own helicopters amid an intense firefight to resupply its commandos with ammunition and to ferry out a wounded Marine,
Fool me once, shame on you - fool me again, shame on me
These Blackwater guys are not amateurs. I'll bet a repeat of last week doesn't happen again. As "contractors" they are not even limited by any "rules of engagement" that may apply to our troupes.

[finnman69]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4672324/

Blackwater commandos and a U.S. soldier defend the Coalition Provisional Authority headquarters in Najaf.

"With their ammunition nearly gone, a wounded and badly bleeding Marine on the rooftop, and no reinforcement by the U.S. military in the immediate offing, the company sent in helicopters to drop ammunition and pick up the Marine. The identity of the Marine and two other wounded men could not be established, but their blood was still fresh hours later, when the top U.S. commander in Iraq, Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, and spokesman Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt arrived to survey the battle zone.

Without commenting at a news conference yesterday on the role of the Blackwater guards, Kimmitt described what he saw after the fighting ended. "I know on a rooftop yesterday in An Najaf, with a small group of American soldiers and coalition soldiers . . . who had just been through about 3 1/2 hours of combat, I looked in their eyes, there was no crisis. "They knew what they were here for," he continued. "They'd lost three wounded. We were sitting there among the bullet shells -- the bullet casings -- and, frankly, the blood of their comrades, and they were absolutely confident."

During the defense of the authority headquarters, thousands of rounds were fired and hundreds of 40mm grenades shot. Sources who asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of Blackwater's work in Iraq reported an unspecified number of casualties among Iraqis.

[jjm2111]

8 of these guys vs. "hundreds" of Iraqis? Talk about professoinalism. I wonder how many of them they got...

[Eva]

There was an article yesterday on Opinion Journal that said that this was the Iraq Tet Offensive. This attack on US headquarters bears that out. The premise of the comparison to the Tet offensive was that the Tet was an act of desperation and actually was a huge tactical defeat for the Communist North Vietnamese, but a strategic defeat for the US war effort because it turned the American public against the war, convincing them that the losses were too great to bear.