Janessa Gans, "I Survived Blackwater", on Dem. Now! today:

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http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/11/1340215

-U.S. Official in Iraq on Iraqi Efforts to Ban Blackwater: “I Was Surprised it Had Taken This Long”

Janessa Gans was guarded by Blackwater guards during her two years in Iraq as a U.S. official. Asked about Iraqi efforts to remove Blackwater, she says: “I was surprised it had taken this long.” Janessa Gans is a former U.S. official who worked in Iraq from 2003 to 2005. On Saturday she published an article in the Los Angeles Times titled "I Survived Blackwater." She talked about her experiences with Blackwater in Iraq.

* Janessa Gans. U.S. official in Iraq from 2003 to 2005. She is now a visiting political science professor at Principia College. Link: "I Survived Blackwater."

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1. Jeremy Scahill also on. nt