Privatized War Crimes

US contractors working in Iraq have made new allegations of war crimes committed by employees of Custer Battles:

The men claimed that on November 8, a Kurd guard traveling with them fired into a passenger car to move traffic out of the way.

He “sighted down his AK-47 and started firing,” former army corporal Ernest Colling told NBC.

The bullet “went through the window. As far as I could see, it hit a passenger. And they didn't even know we were there.”

Later that day, an Iraqi teenager walking on the roadside was shot, Colling said.

“The rear gunner in my vehicle shot him,” Colling told NBC. “Unarmed, walking kids.”

And a large Ford pickup truck crushed a smaller car with Iraqis inside.

“The front of the truck came down,” Craun said.

“I could see two children sitting in the back seat of that car with their eyes looking up at the axle as it came down and pulverised the back.”