Becoming an every day fucking occurrence.
Oh, and the Boston Globe say fit to not cover any of this.
"Security Contractors Shoot at Taxi, Wounding 3 Iraqis" by ANDREW E. KRAMER
BAGHDAD, Oct. 18 — A man lost his eye and two other people were wounded when private security contractors fired into a crowded taxi as it approached their convoy of sport utility vehicles in northern Iraq on Thursday.
The incident came less than two weeks after a shooting by another company killed two women in a taxicab here, and just over a month after guards with the private American security company Blackwater USA killed 17 people in a Baghdad square.
The shootings on Thursday took place when security guards working for the British company Erinys International were escorting employees of the United States Army Corps of Engineers on a highway east of Kirkuk. The guards said that a car approached “at a high rate of speed,” according to a statement issued by the Corps of Engineers. When efforts to warn it off failed, the contractors fired into the vehicle, the statement said.
One of the occupants of the car, who was interviewed from a hospital bed in Kirkuk, said that after they fired, the security contractors pointed their guns at the car to discourage those inside from climbing out. The guards then drove away without offering medical help, said the man, Zairak Nori Qadir, whose right eye was hit by a bullet.
Mr. Qadir:
“They fired on us, and we never threatened them. They shot us and didn’t let us release ourselves from the car until they escaped and left us covered in blood. Those are savages and criminals and killers.”
A man who answered the phone at Erinys’s Middle East headquarters in Dubai referred questions to the Corps of Engineers. In its statement, the Army Corps said it would appoint an officer to investigate the shooting. “No further details are available at this time,” the statement said.
The incident carried the potential to inflame Iraqi opinion about the operations of private security contractors who travel Iraq’s roads in heavily armed convoys but are immune from Iraqi law."
That's it on the killings?
What about the 35 people killed every day and the number of Iraqis killed by the surge -- around 300 per day, 10,000 per month.
What about the 1.2 million Iraqis dead since the invasion?
Not including the 1,654 killed in September -- a so-called reduction in violence.
What about the U.S. military's 75 air raids a day?
