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Here is the original version of the editorial that ran on Op-Ed News. They had an exclusive for at least 48 hours on the pithier version - and it ran five days ago.
Note the current status of the situation:
1. There is now a video that shows that Blackwater USA guards opened fire against civilians [...]

I’ve submitted an editorial on the Iraq Blackwater situation to the Op-Ed news network.
Ousting Blackwater is a Win-Win
I’ve granted them a 48-hour exclusive.
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Another must-read, by Jeremy Scahill from today’s U.K. Guardian, “A very private war.”
Four years into the occupation, there is absolutely no effective system of oversight or accountability governing contractors and their operations. They have not been subjected to military justice, and only two cases have ever reached US civilian courts, under the Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction [...]