This video is labeled as Blackwater employees in Iraq shooting at cars for kicks. If you know anything else about this footage, please leave a comment.
Update: I knew if this could be cleared up, y’all would do it in a hurry. Rumors Daily identified this as a trophy video from a couple of years ago, attributed to the British company Aegis. There was an investigation, and Aegis posted the eventual results. Read more about it in the comment section. Here's the same video, posted to YouTube 18 months ago.
This video didn’t quite pass the “smell test” when I found it last night. No matter whose agenda a story supports, you need to keep a skeptical eye out. Thanks, Rumors Daily!
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It's not Blackwater.
It's a similar British organization called Aegis and this is sort of an old-ish video. I have a link that talks about it, but the link is of course unpostable on YBNBY. Here's the test of the link from Aegis's webpage:
'Trophy Video' Allegation
Aegis Defence Services is pleased to announce today the positive outcome of the investigations into the so-called 'trophy video'.
The video purporting to show its security contractors shooting at civilian vehicles on the highways in Iraq came to light in November last year. Aegis launched an immediate enquiry under the auspices of an independent review board which included a British Barrister and Recorder of the Crown Court and a former senior British police officer. It was a thorough and conclusive investigation which reported back before Christmas. Its findings were that the films were recorded during Aegis' legitimate operations in support of Multi-National Force Iraq and the incidents recorded were within the Rules for the Use of Force. There was no evidence of any civilian casualties as a result of the incidents and the images published were all taken out of context and were therefore highly misleading in what they represented.
The report was handed over to the US Military who launched its own enquiry through the Army's Criminal Investigation Division. This enquiry is now closed with confirmation that no further investigation or action is warranted. The speculative allegations made at the time of the video are therefore entirely unfounded.
Colonel Spicer, CEO Aegis said today: "We are very pleased that the US Military concurs with our findings. It is regrettable that the actions of one Aegis contractor, who has been the subject of separate court action in the UK, brought into question the high standards of behaviour achieved by our team in Iraq. Aegis is a prime contractor to the US Government with an exemplary record of performance working in very difficult circumstances and observes the strictest protocols for standards and ethics".
The video is from the so called trophy videos 18 months ago. It is from a team with Brit company Aegis and has nothing to do with Blackwater or as all the Brit companies call them "dishwater". Believe it from someone who has been fired upon three times by Blackwater cowboys, if that was a Blackwater callsign firing on Iraqi civilians then you would know it as everyone else in the local area would have caught it up at the same time. Blackwater SOPs are to kill everyone around them if they feel they are under threat.