You’ve heard, of course, of Blackwater USA, the private security firm that has about 1,000 - or more - employees in Iraq, supplementing our official armed forces and in fact, helping to ensure that a military draft is not necessary. You might also remember that those four Americans who were killed and burned in Fallujah in 2004, their charred bodies hung from a bridge, were Blackwater employees.

What you might not know is that the families of those four men have sued, mostly to find out how the men died. Not only does Blackwater not want to divulge the information, but now it has sued the families for $10 million, apparently in an effort to make them go away. Which may succeed:

The families now find themselves looking down the barrel of a gun as Blackwater, armed with a war chest and politically-connected attorneys, is aggressively litigating against them. Blackwater has also threatened to hold the administrator of the estates personally liable to scare him into abandoning his position, and has threatened the families’ attorneys as well.

Sad. But about on par with the rest of this war, I’d say.