On This Day - 2004, March 31st

Fallujah, Iraq. Scott Helvenston, Jerry Zovko, Wesley Batalona and Mike Teagu - private contractors employed by Blackwater - were escorting a convey of eating utensils through Fallujah when they were ambushed by insurgents dressed as Iraqi Police. After killing the four contractors the insurgents slipped into the maze of alleys and backstreets as a crowd of locals gathered and begun mutilating the bodies, 2 of which were hung from a main bridge across the Euphrates River. These events led up to The First Battle of Fallujah (Operation Vigilant Resolve).

https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2024/the-anniversary-effect-of-traumatic-experiences

To be continued...

#Iraq #gwot #pmc #Blackwater

I apologize to anyone that is distressed due to this content, that is not my intention. I'm not even sure this will be seen. I feel weak for needing to express it, the smell of decaying flesh in the desert heat fills my nostrils everywhere I go, and it will remain that way for the next week or so, and come again next year, and the year after, ad nauseam. Fuck I need a drink.