Two weeks ago the New York Times rpeorted that State Dept. contractor Blackwater was largely off the hook for their allegedly unwarranted shootings of Iraqi civilians. But the Wall Street Journal’s August Cole reports that the private security company’s bad reputation is hurting it in other ways.

Jerry Sanders, the mayor of San Diego, is trying to stop Blackwater from getting a permit for a 66,000-square-foot firearms training base in the area. Southern California residents have complained about other Blackwater training bases for environmental and political reasons. Also, the FBI is still investigating two separate Blackwater shooting incidents in Baghdad.  Read Cole here.  MB

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