more on the Danziger Bridge incident?

JEREMY SCAHILL has an article in The Nation called Blackwater Down about mercenaries in nola:

"A possibly deadly incident involving Quinn's hired guns (Quinn is local 'wealthy elite') underscores the dangers of private forces policing American streets. On his second night in New Orleans, Quinn's security chief, Michael Montgomery, who said he worked for an Alabama company called Bodyguard and Tactical Security (BATS), was with a heavily armed security detail en route to pick up one of Quinn's associates and escort him through the chaotic city. Montgomery told me they came under fire from "black gangbangers" on an overpass near the poor Ninth Ward neighborhood. "At the time, I was on the phone with my business partner," he recalls. "I dropped the phone and returned fire."

Montgomery says he and his men were armed with AR-15s and Glocks and that they unleashed a barrage of bullets in the general direction of the alleged shooters on the overpass. "After that, all I heard was moaning and screaming, and the shooting stopped. That was it. Enough said."

Then, Montgomery says, "the Army showed up, yelling at us and thinking we were the enemy. We explained to them that we were security. I told them what had happened and they didn't even care. They just left." Five minutes later, Montgomery says, Louisiana state troopers arrived on the scene, inquired about the incident and then asked him for directions on "how they could get out of the city." Montgomery says that no one ever asked him for any details of the incident and no report was ever made. "One thing about security," Montgomery says, "is that we all coordinate with each other--one family."

Thats kind of interesting - Scahill doesnt explain exactly when this event happened, nor exaqctly where - however the Danziger Bridge is in the Lower Ninth Ward - so I wonder if he is referring to the odd Dazinger Bridge incident where 6 people (or so) were murdered on Sep 4th.

This incident was the odd story which kept changing and the AP put out an urgent bulleting to stop the publishing of the story. Ron was first onto the original story of the AP getting caught out changing their story, and xymphora had a take on it as well.

More confusion.