If you are not familiar with the Raven 23 Team of Blackwater then read these:

Justice ’shoehorning the facts’ to indict Blackwater Contractors

Justice Dept. Advising Iraqis to sue to Blackwater???

Website now set up for Indicted Blackwater Contractors

IBD tells us about the first appearance of Raven 23 in District Court before a judge (Ricardo Urbina) who ordered the release of Uighur terrorists held at Gitmo. Yes, he ordered them to be released on American streets. Wonder how it happened that this case was assigned to his court? More political correctness to be applied vs justice for these Americans working for the Department of State? I wonder how WWII and Korean war veterans would have survived a trial by political correctness? I’m sick of this crap with bozos who sit in DC or some comfy bureaucratic desk where there is no gunfire or IED’s or bombs going off second guessing everything that our troops and military contractors do in the field. Then using them as political fodder for an agenda.

According to testimony by Gen. David Petraeus before the Senate on April 8, 2008, there were about 790 attacks on Coalition Forces and diplomatic personnel that week. That comes out to about 112 a day, or more than four an hour. Blackwater personnel knew each day someone would try to kill them and those they were to protect.

But the Iraqis wanted their pound of flesh, and a U.S. government reeling from anti-war criticism was willing to make sacrificial lambs of Raven 23. They’re being tried under the Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act (MEJA), which lets U.S. Courts punish Defense Department contractors overseas.

One small problem: Blackwater was under contract to the State Department, not the Defense Department.

Blackwater Down

Yes, it’s time to Free the “Raven 23″.

Raven 23, Blackwater, Nisoor Square Incident, Nisoor, Donald Ball, Dustin Heard, Evan Liberty, Nick Slatten, Paul Slough, Justice Department, State Department, US District Court Judge Ricardo Urbina, Uighur terrorists