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General Category => World News => Topic started by: DCPatriot on June 13, 2014, 02:28:09 am
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Breaking: US Security Contractors Engage in Gun Battles to Escape Iraq
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, June 12, 2014, 8:52 PM
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An ISIS parade in Mosul Thursday.
The Washington Post inexplicably buried the lede in Thursday night’s story on U.S. contractors starting evacuations from Iraq.
One has to read to the ninth paragraph (out of eleven) to read of the report that U.S. security contractors traversing embattled areas are engaging in gun battles as they try to evacuate other civilian contractors:
“Contractor evacuations began Wednesday, if not earlier, said Ginger Cruz, CEO of Mantid International LLC, a consulting firm that works with numerous companies in Iraq…
“On Thursday, the electronics giant Siemens was working to get about 50 employees out of Baiji, Cruz said. It was not clear exactly what their operation there entails, but the company announced in February that it had signed a deal to provide service and maintenance to a large gas power plant there. The oil refinery city is some 130 miles north of Baghdad.
more at: http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/06/breaking-us-security-contractors-engage-in-gun-battles-to-escape-iraq/ (http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/06/breaking-us-security-contractors-engage-in-gun-battles-to-escape-iraq/)