VF exclusive: Blackwater’s Erik Prince to step down, reveals CIA role
RawStory.com Power struggle’ inside Blackwater over Prince’s successor Blackwater’s Erik Prince was recruited as a CIA agent in the years after the 9/11 attacks, says an exclusive report at Vanity Fair that also reveals the billionaire ex-Navy SEAL plans to step down from Blackwater to teach high school. For the past six years, Prince “appears to have [...]
Exposed: American Police Force Is A Blackwater Front Group
Paul Joseph Watson | Prisonplanet.com UPDATE: The American Police Force website page which clearly states that they run the Blackwater-controlled U.S. Training Center is back online here. American Police Force, the paramilitary unit patrolling a small town in Montana, has been exposed as being a front group for the disgraced private military contractor Blackwater, now [...]
Afghanistan Contractors Outnumber Troops
August Cole | WallStreetJournal.com Even as U.S. troops surge to new highs in Afghanistan they are outnumbered by military contractors working alongside them, according to a Defense Department census due to be distributed to Congress — illustrating how hard it is for the U.S. to wean itself from the large numbers of war-zone contractors that [...]
Iraqis outraged over Blackwater’s slow exit from the country.
Matt Corley | ThinkProgress.org In January, the Iraqi government announced that it would “not issue a new operating license to Blackwater Worldwide,” which is now known as Xe, and that the company would have to be out of the country “as soon as a joint Iraqi-U.S. committee finishes drawing up guidelines for private contractors.” But [...]
Jeremy Scahill on Blackwater: Leaving Iraq, Chasing Pirates?
After $1.3 billion in government contracts and controversy over the killing of innocent Iraqi civilians, Blackwater Worldwide is moving on. The Washington Post reported this week that Blackwater, the for-profit military company contracted by the Bush administration to provide securities services in Iraq, will not have its Iraq contract renewed. But the powerful military corporation has no [...]
Iraq Won’t Grant Blackwater a License
Timothy Williams | NYTimes.com Blackwater Worldwide, the security firm whose guards killed 17 Iraqi civilians on a crowded Baghdad street in 2007, will not receive an operating license from the Iraqi government, a decision that will likely force American diplomats here to make new arrangements for their personal protection, officials said Thursday. Unlike many security contractors [...]
Why Are Mercenaries Being Contracted To Provide Security For Hurricane Gustav?
William Cormier OpEdNews September 1, 2008 Blackwater International is running a full page on their website attempting to compile “a list of qualified security personnel for possible deployment into areas affected by Hurricane Gustav.” This is a task that has historically been undertaken by our various state National Guard Units. CNN [...]
Scahill: Blackwater Now In the Private Intelligence Business
video from ExpandedBooks.com David Edwards and Muriel Kane | RawStory.com Jeremy Scahill, author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army, is worried about the giant mercenary firm’s latest foray into private intelligence. “They’re marketing their services to not only foreign governments, but to Fortune 500 corporations,” he recently told an interviewer. [...]
Criminals protecting criminals
UPDATE DECEMBER 7th KRONGARD QUITS reuters.com WASHINGTON (Reuters) – State Department Inspector General Howard Krongard, under scrutiny for his brother’s link to the Blackwater security firm, has decided to resign, U.S. officials said on Friday.
