To sum up, Blackwater is involved in the Mansour shootings, allegedly smuggling arms in Iraq, and supposedly having planned and carried out a jailbreak to free a minister convicted of corruption charges.

Blackwater, paid fill-ins who don't abide by military orders. This is apparently how Bush/Cheney decided to correct for Rumsfeld's inept plan of invading-on-the-cheap. I wonder to what extent these thousands of contractors have increased the level of chaos and mayhem beyond what it would've been with just the deployment of official U.S. military personnel in the country. Thanks to Bush et al, I guess we'll never know.