Four US mercenaries are
torched, dismembered and hung in Iraq

by
Ernesto Cienfuegos
La Voz de Aztlan

Angry Iraqis attack dismembered charred torso

Los Angeles, Alta California - March 31, 2004 - (ACN) In a scene reminiscent of George Romero's "The Night of the Living Dead", four US mercenaries suffered a horrific and gruesome death at the hands of about 30 Iraqis near the town of Fallujah early this morning. The four US mercenaries employed by Blackwater Security Consulting where traveling in two SUV vehicles when they were ambushed and their vehicles set on fire. A large crowd of angry Iraqis approached the torched vehicles with shovels and rocks and pulled the four charred corpses out onto the roadway. Two of the bodies where dragged throughout the town's streets. The other two were dismembered and one was decapitated. Two of the torsos were then taken to a bridge that crosses the Euphrates River and hung like animals. The crowd, in addition, took one leg and one arm, tied ropes on them with a rock on each end, then swung both of them over electric power lines.

Torched body hung on bridge

The Pentagon is running out of soldiers and has been forced to hire paid mercenaries it calls "security consultants". A major Pentagon contract is held by Blackwater USA out of Moyock, North Carolina (http://www.blackwaterusa.com). Blackwater Security Consulting, a company of Blackwater USA, has been hired to guard Iraqi oil wells against attack by insurgents and to provide security for the US occupation administrator Paul Bremer. The four mercenaries horribly killed today in Fallujah were employed by Blackwater Security Consulting.

A limb thrown over a power line

Blackwater Security Consulting recruits former or retired CIA agents, US Special Operations personnel and commandos from foreign armies. The US security company recently hired mercenaries from Chile to replace US soldiers on security duty in Iraq. A few months ago Blackwater USA flew a group of about 60 former Chilean commandos, many of whom had trained under the military government of Augusto Pinochet, from Santiago to its 6000 acre training camp in North Carolina. These commandos will be shipped to Iraq to serve for a maximum of one year duty.

The privatization of security in Iraq is a growing business as the US seeks to reduce its commitment of troops. At the end of last year there were 10,000 hired security personnel in Iraq. Squads of Bosnians, Filipinos and Americans with special forces experience have been hired for tasks ranging from airport security to protecting Paul Bremer, the head of the Coalition Provisional Authority.

Another view of torched and mutilated body of an American

The Iraqi occupation is becoming a problem of immense proportions for the USA. American oil companies need to commence the extraction of vast amounts of Iraqi oil in order to pay for the high cost of mercenaries to guard the pipelines and other occupation costs. This is not yet happening. The present gouging of the American motorist as demonstrated by the higher and higher price for a gallon of gasoline is proof of this.

The four US mercenaries that met a cruel death in Iraq today were selling their services to the oil companies for a few bucks a month. The Iraqi people who killed them were defending their land from foreign invaders determined to loot their oil. I rather ride my bicycle or walk than continue witnessing this tragedy unfold.

Iraqi flashes victory sign in front of hung body