ARRESTED American private contractor in Iraq found with explosives

[seemslikeadream]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060314/ts_nm/iraq_american_dc

American arrested with arms in Iraq, official says

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An American described as a security contractor arrested by police in a northern Iraqi town was carrying weapons in his car, a provincial official said.

ADVERTISEMENT

Abdullah Jebara, the Deputy Governor of Salahaddin province, told Reuters the man was arrested in Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit on Monday. He was removed from the provincial government building by U.S. forces on Tuesday, Jebara said.

The Joint Coordination Center between the U.S. and Iraqi military in Tikrit said the man, whom it described as a security contractor working for a private company, possessed explosives which were found in his car. It said he was arrested on Tuesday.

The man, driving a BMW, was stopped by police for violating a daytime curfew in Tikrit, a security source said. American security personnel rarely travel alone.

A spokesman for the major crimes unit in Tikrit said the man was first brought to their headquarters but they refused to take him into custody.

The arresting police were told to take the man to the provincial council building, the spokesman said, where he was taken by American forces.

U.S. officials had no immediate comment.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

1. There's your friendly neighborhood . . .

mosque blower-upper.

[cantstandbush]

33. These are our out-sourced special ops terrorists. He got caught. n/t

[montanacowboy]

2. So was he planting IED's?

part of an American mission to destablize further?

[mom cat]

15. Damned good question.

[3waygeek]

38. Either that

or practicing for MIHOP II.

[rocktivity]

42. British soldiers have been caught in similar activites

They've even had shootouts with Iraqi policemen!

:headbang:
rocknation

[Richard Steele]

3. Those crazy Iraqi 'tinfoil hatters' think the US is behind many bombings.

And we just keep seeing stories like this
that PROVE THEM RIGHT!

[ChairmanAgnostic]

7. Wow, that explains why it's not a civil war. Sheeee it.

I was wrong, rummie and Bush were right.

A civil war is defined as an armed struggle between different elements within a country or empire. Because the US is present, and because we have US people planting bombs and causing even more death and destruction, it cannot be defined as a civil war. Our very presence (and our bombings, tank blasts, strafings, machine-gunning) means that we can never call it a civil war.

Boy, I owe Bush and Rummie an apology.

But I will not give them one.

[Hobarticus]

4. Black Water or whoever would just break him out, like the Brits did...

Remember that little outrage?

[me b zola]

9. That was the first thing that I thought of

[mirandapriestly]

20. me too! nt

[Octafish]

26. Me four.

We should question the pretzeldent about this, too. At the trials.

[RazzleDazzle]

18. I remember it very well

and actually saved quite a few more links about it than I'd remembered: Britain's captured soldiers allegedly spying on Iraqi prison torturer
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1853491&mesg_id=1853491
Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051016/wl_mideast_afp/britainiraqbasra

Those Not-So Very Mysterious British "Insurgents"
http://www.progressiveindependent.com/shalom/britishinsurgents.htm

SAS in secret war against Iranian agents
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1804566
Link: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-1796566,00.html

So what were two undercover British soldiers up to in Basra?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x159467
Link: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article314977.ece
also see: The US War with Iran has Already Begun
by Scott Ritter http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0620-31.htm

Scrap Basra police and start again orders MoD
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1803803#1803912
Link: http://news.scotsman.com/politics.cfm?id=1990832005

Those Not-So Very Mysterious British "Insurgents"
http://www.progressiveindependent.com/shalom/britishinsurgents.htm

I'm having trouble wrapping my mind around what happened in Basra (Will Pitt)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4837870#4837883

SO, WHAT are we to infer about the two British "soldiers?"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=4823586


Basra incident - a dot to connect (Rumsfeld's P2OG to foment terror)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4833722


SO, WHAT are we to infer about the two British "soldiers?"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4823586#4823600

Two British soldiers dressed as Arabs arrested over killing
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4819548&mesg_id=4819548
and: Proof that something strange is going on in Iraq
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4821425&mesg_id=4821425
Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1573681,00.html
also: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,16661037-38201,00.html


and here are a couple of other things of interest (maybe) that subtly point to things not being as they seem on the "civil war" front:

Death of a professor
There is now a systematic campaign to assassinate Iraqis who speak out against the occupation
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2484845#2484856
Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1719417,00.html
also see: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2485210&mesg_id=2485210

Dahr Jamail...."Who Benefits?"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x193106#193113
Link: http://dahrjamailiraq.com/weblog/archives/dispatches/000365.php

FAUX News: All-Out Civil War in Iraq: Could It Be a Good Thing?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x510889
Link: http://mediamatters.org/items/200602240003

Many Iraqis Believe "Suicide" Bombings Done By US To Start Civil War (several good links)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5554171#5554406
Link: http://benfrank.net/blog/2005/09/17/suicide_bombers

[Octafish]

28. Bookmark this puppy.

Viddy well, free women and free men.

EDIT: Forgot most important part.

Thanks, RazzleDazzle!

[RazzleDazzle]

39. Nice compliment coming from the Octafish! Thanks.

[WHAT]

41. please open a du journal...

nt

[malaise]

5. So the private contractors are blowing up

the place. Democracy = Chaos? Who benefits from this?? Giev me a B..give me a U..give me a S...gibe me an H...then a C and all together let's scream OOOOOO!!

sp.

[me b zola]

45. Fascism wearing the mask of democracy = chaos n/t

[mike_c]

6. so many mosques, so little time....

Just like those Brits picked up in Basra.

[seemslikeadream]

8. Bumboclot

Bumboclot

[Hutzpa]

11. Bloooood Clot!!! lol n/t

[Just Me]

10. Yep.

I read about that. x( Mercenaries contracted by our government, paid for with U.S. taxpayer funds? I think so.

[SpiralHawk]

12. "Move along. There is nothing to see here." - Ministry of Truthiness

Big BushCo loves you.

"We are spreading Freedom across the globe, like peanuts or something." - BushCo

[MGKrebs]

13. And why was he "taken" by Amer. forces?

Perhaps US soldiers have some licence to kill or whatever, but if this guy was a freelancer, then it doesn't do much for the "rule of law" to not charge and try him in court. That's not democracy. But if he's not a freelancer, then what the hell was he doing?

[EFerrari]

14. And so, why did nobody listen when we objected to Negroponte?

:nuke:

[arcane1]

16. my thoughts EXACTLY

he's a god-damned expert in this sort of thing by now

[Joanne98]

17. Was he in the city of Sadr two days ago?

[Supersedeas]

19. So many questions - so much corporate media silence

[Vidar]

21. More bush-inspired terrorism.

[Disturbed]

22. This story will be buried.

We won't hear about the outcome.

Anybody read about the two Brits, lately?

Anybody read about the woman suicide bomber in Jordan?

It is often the things that we don't get to find out that are the most relevant.

[Vidar]

48. No doubt, unless The Guardian or Pravda run with it.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

23. Security contractor = Mercenary = Lowest life form.

[leftofthedial]

24. another member of the "insurgency"

nabbed by disloyal Iraqi police

[chicofaraby]

25. Must have been one of Cheney's dead enders.

You know, those people who oppose democracy.

[Octafish]

27. British "Undercover Soldiers" Caught driving Booby Trapped Car

Gee. Something weird about all this.

Is this one of them deja-vu things we've been havin'?

British "Undercover Soldiers" Caught driving Booby Trapped Car

"They refused to say what their mission was."

by Michel Chossudovsky
September 20, 2005
GlobalResearch.ca

The following Reuters report raises some disturbing questions.

Why were undercover British "soldiers" wearing traditional Arab headscarves firing at Iraqi police?

The incident took place just prior to a major religious event in Basra.

The report suggests that the police thought the British soldiers looked "suspicious". What was the nature of their mission?

Occupation forces are supposesd to be collaborating with Iraqi authorities. Why did Britsh Forces have to storm the prison using tanks and armoured vehicles to liberate the British undercover agents?

"British forces used up to 10 tanks " supported by helicopters " to smash through the walls of the jail and free the two British servicemen."

Was there concern that the British "soldiers" who were being held by the Iraqi National Guard would be obliged to reveal the nature and objective of their undercover mission?

A report of Al Jazeera TV, which preceeded the raid on the prison, suggests that the British undercover soldiers were driving a booby trapped car loaded with ammunition. The Al Jazeera report (see below) also suggests that the riots directed against British military presence were motivated because the British undercover soldiers were planning to explode the booby trapped car in the centre of Basra:

CONTINUED...

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20050920&articleId=972

There's probably no connection between the two.

Right.

[suffragette]

29. Yeah, no connection at all

How could there possibly be a connection? I mean they are such different situations, and those were two Brits, while this is one American, so since they are from different countries it isn't the same at all and is so different. So very, very different.

Wait, look over there. See the shiny metal; it is making you sleepy, very sleepy. Your eyes are closing and when you awake, you will forget all the clear and obvious similarities that exist here and will go your merry way humming a merry tune to the words, Mission Accomplished.

:P

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

30. I was just going to post about this and you beat me to it! Waaaa!!! ;)

[Minnesota_Lib]

44. When I saw the subject line of this tread, this is the 1st thing...

..that came to mind. Nice job.

[slaveplanet]

31. British nationals, Building Iraqi cities, In Arkansas, to train American

Mercs, How to blow up those Iraqi cities.

Battlescape shoots for profit

BY MARK MINTON

Posted on Sunday, February 19, 2006

URL: http://www.nwanews.com/adg/Business/146323/

MARION — Surrounded by cotton, rice and soybean fields, an exotic oasis is rising in east Arkansas: nine square blocks of downtown Fallujah.

Builders have begun moving dirt for a streetscape modeled after the war-ravaged city in Iraq, complete with a bazaar, a traffic circle, office buildings and a school, all in Middle Eastern architectural styles.

This Little Fallujah will even include the bomb blasts and flying bullets.

“We’ve got to give them what they’re going to experience overseas — there’s no pretending,” said Alan Brosnan, the former New Zealand Army assaultgroup commander who is overseeing the transformation of a 700-acre patch of Delta farmland into a training ground for modern urban warfare.

Olive Group, a British firm that supplies personnel and combat training for armies and corporations in the world’s scariest hot spots, plans to open the first three blocks of its mock city this summer.

It won’t be the only foreign war zone open for business in Arkansas.

At “Little Mogadishu” in North Little Rock, students rappel from a helicopter perched on a 40-foot stanchion and work through a maze of concrete huts and alleyways, shooting at targets and blowing open doors.

(...)

Doug Brooks, president of the International Peace Operations Association, a Washington-based trade group, estimated that the roughly 100 companies providing support to the military in Iraq are making a total of about $ 20 billion a year. He said some $ 2 billion of that goes to companies, such as Olive, that strictly provide security. Olive Group pulled in more than $ 100 million of it last year — not bad for a company in business only since 2001, Brosnan said.

(...)

QUIET NEIGHBOR The stocky New Zealander, who sports a mustache as thick as his Kiwi accent, founded the Marion training center 15 years ago, as the Tactical Explosive Entry School. The center occupied only 16 acres and was training SWAT teams and military special-operations personnel when Olive bought it last fall for an undisclosed price. Olive also opened a Washington, D. C., office to help establish a U. S. beachhead for operations that span six continents. The company, which maintains its headquarters in Dubai, United Arab Emirates may not be as well-known as its main U. S. competitor, North Carolina based Blackwater USA. But, internationally, Olive is one of the largest in the business, touting a client list that includes major multinational corporations in mining, banking, communication and other industries.

Makes one wonder if they were not blowing up other things while they were on the ground in NOLA?

[Canuckistanian]

32. I'm sure he had a legitimate reason for carrying explosives

Maybe he.. uh.. needed to blow up some stumps on a peasant family's farm or.. uh.. was helping to excavate a foundation for a new orphanage.... yeah, that's it!

Geez, you people are SO suspicious...

[Clara T]

34. War is a dangerous place

Negroponte will bail him out.

[spanone]

35. Once there he was awarded theMedal of Freedom and given his explosives

back. :sarcasm:

[NYC]

36. Maybe this was to prevent a replay of what happened with the two

British men in local attire.

...The arresting police were told to take the man to the provincial council building, the spokesman said, where he was taken by American forces...

No tanks and helicopters this time.

[Jeanette in FL]

37. Copy article and ask your congress people for comment

Copy this article and send it to your congress person and Senators and ask them for an explanation for it. Don't make a judgement in your letter to them. Just ask them to explain. Keep track of their response.

[misternormal]

40. When is the media going to learn to spell it right???

It's...

M - E - R - C - E - N - A - R - I - E - S !!!

Contractors... what a joke.

[WHAT]

43. most of the people on this thread need to...

open a du journal...especially seemslikeadream.

I'm putting-in requests because I got excited by this new feature. Maybe I should give it a few days...

[NYC]

46. Related thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2165308

[stickdog]

47. Surprise, surprise, surprise!

[Blue_Tires]

49. Blackwater at it again

supported by OUR tax dollars, of course