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Blackwater Gassed American Soldiers

Newspaper current event by VnutZ on 16 January 2008, tagged as military, blackwater, and iraq

The Blackwater security firm is already in hot water over the allegations that gun trucks shot Iraqi civilians. This time, allegations hit closer to home as reports are surfacing that a Blackwater MD-500 dropped a CS Tear Gas canister on soldiers from the 3rd Infantry Division. In May of 2005, a helicopter hovering above a security checkpoint in the Green Zone dropped a smoking canister. Soon after, the soldiers began dispersing to escape the gas' effect. "We saw the Little Bird (Blackwater helicopter) come and hover right in front of the gate, and I saw one of the guys dropping a canister," quoted Sergeant Mattingly to reporters. "There was no reason for dropping the CS gas. We didn’t hear any gunfire or anything. There was no incident under way."

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