The New York Times: "Blackwater Shot Our Dog"

Posted by GottaLaff , Cliff Schecter's Blog at 3:01 PM on December 18, 2007.

You remember Blackwater, don't you? Oh, good. To mangle a perfectly good movie title, they shoot dogs don't they?

The U.S. embassy in Iraq is investigating another deadly shooting incident involving its Blackwater bodyguards -- this time of the New York Times's dog.

Staff at the newspaper's Baghdad bureau said Blackwater bodyguards shot Hentish dead last week before a visit by a U.S. diplomat to the Times compound.

Never let it be said that I'm not evenhanded. Here's the rest:

Blackwater spokeswoman Anne Tyrrell said the dog had attacked one of Blackwater's bomb-sniffer dogs while a security team was sweeping the compound for explosives.

"The K-9 handler made several unsuccessful attempts to get the dog to retreat, including placing himself between the dogs. When those efforts failed, the K-9 handler unfortunately was forced to use a pistol to protect the company's K-9 and himself," she said in an e-mail to Reuters.

Couldn't they have just wounded him? Then again, with Blackwater, life is just not all that precious.

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