The Associated Press reports that all land travel throughout Iraq by U.S. diplomats and officials, except for the fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, has been suspended by the State Department. This follows the decision earlier this week by the Maliki Government to cancel the license of the Blackwater security force. With thousands of mercenaries already in Iraq, finding contractor security support shouldn't require those measures, so the suspicion is that the Bushies are pushing back against the license cancellation. After all, the head of the Blackwater company is a wealthy Rethug contributor, with connections to the Michigan GOP.
UPDATE: Maliki is asking the obvious question: Why don't you just hire another security company in place of Blackwater? Let's see what the Bushies say.
