Contractors or Mercenaries?

Abby Normal was way ahead of the curve yesterday pointing out (mapping in the comments to "Various Thoughts at the End of a Workday" below) that the "contractors" that were killed and mutilated yesterday in Baghdad were actually seasoned "mercenaries" hired by Blackwater as security forces in Iraq. Most reports that I have seen ignore this fact representing them as simple business contractors trying to help the Iraqis out... for more connecting-of-the-dots on this check out the post "butchered" at Thoughts on the Eve of the Apocalypse