October 4, 2007 (LPAC)--Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki declared that Blackwater is "unfit" and must leave Iraq, exactly where the mercenary company has hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts. During a televised press conference in Baghdad on Wednesday, al-Maliki said, "I believe the abundance of evidence against Blackwater makes Blackwater unfit to stay in Iraq." His comments came after Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) released a 15-page report identifying Blackwater as the mercenary company in Iraq which had over 200 shooting incidents against Iraqi civilians on its record, in which the mercenaries fired first, without being fired upon. One member of the Iraqi parliament condemned Blackwater for being "above the law." Al-Maliki had banned Blackwater after a shooting incident 17 days ago that killed 11-20 Iraqi civilians (reports vary), but had been pressured to allow Blackwater to operate in the country until several U.S. government investigations were completed. But now Al-Maliki is saying the that organization must leave now.

"This outfit is an SS," said Lyndon LaRouche, "and Congress should say that. It's Felix Rohatyn and George Shultz's SS. But, do the Democrats have the guts to say that these killers are Rohatyn's SS? That's where the Blackwater policy comes from -- Rohatyn's Middlebury College."

LaRouche emphasized another important point, that the Blackwater model is British--pure British--based on the model of the British East India Company. A new book on Blackwater by Nation reporter Jeremy Scahill is subtitled, "The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army," but LaRouche said, "That's wrong. It's the British--they have the world's most powerful mercenary armies." Indeed, the British mercenaries, Aegis and other companies, have over 21,000 mercenaries in Iraq, while Blackwater's number is estimated to be well below 10,000.