Soldiers: Blackwater guards fired at fleeing cars

[The Yosemite Bear]

well if the us military does call them on their bluff...

[The Dark]

If Blackwater leaves Iraq, which private military contractor is able to replace them? (To my knowledge, the US military is highly dependent upon Blackwater because the Army and Marine Corps simply doesn't have enough boots on the ground.)

The only ones I know of that are anywhere near big enough are DynCorp and Triple Canopy. Neither's big enough to fill the contract without picking up new mercs, though, and their first source would likely be poaching from Blackwater, since those guys are already trained. Triple Canopy would likely be the "safer" of the two choices - during the Bosnian War, DynCorp employees were involved in the smuggling of child prostitutes. Karzai also removed them from his Presidential Guard because they were overly aggressive. Triple Canopy's had a few minor scandals involving the hiring of Chileans who had worked for Pinochet, but they're probably the lightest grey of the three major PMCs.