James Bond has nothing on American hired mercenaries in Iraq. Yet another episode in "Iraq doesn't have jurisdiction, neither do US civilian courts and neither do US military courts. Hahaha, we'll kill whoever we feel like suckers. And no one can do a thing about it." Wonder how many American soldiers have been killed by Iraqis looking for vengeance because their loved ones were killed by some trigger happy mercenary pulling down six figures to screw up the occupation?

Dyncorp is the culprit this time:

Two Iraqi civilians were seriously injured on Wednesday when the guards of a U.S. security company open fired on them in eastern Baghdad, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said.

"Guards from a U.S. security company opened fire on two civilian passers-by in eastern Baghdad, wounding them seriously," General Abdul Karim Khalaf, director of the Interior Ministry’s National Command Center, told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI).

General Khalaf added that the wounded were members of one family and they were rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment.

"The incident is now under investigation by the Interior Ministry and the security company," he noted.

On September 16, personnel from the private U.S. security company Blackwater allegedly opened random fire after two mortar shells fell near a U.S. embassy motorcade that was passing in Sahat al-Nosur area, western Baghdad, killing 11 people and wounding 12 others.

Use of mercenaries is almost always a sign of weakness, and always when widespread. Dyncorp is used to protect Iraq's justice ministry, which tells you everything you need to know about how reliable the Iraqi central government's own "military" is.