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Media Goof Again, Blackwater Isn't Going Anywhere »
Posted by: tehranchik 2 months, 2 weeks ago in News
This story broke on Monday, when the Associated Press ran an article based on lengthy interviews with Blackwater's top guns. Since then, the story ...
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Blackwater to Drop Xbox 360s Out of Planes as a Mercenary Recruitment Tool »
Posted by: titlesaysitall 2 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Blackwater recruiter James Overton is working on packing a Microsoft Xbox video-game console, modem, TV projector and "Guitar Hero" video game into a kit that ...
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Audit questions millions in Blackwater contracts »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 2 months, 2 weeks ago in News
Private security contractor Blackwater Worldwide and its affiliates may have misrepresented their size to win more than $100 million in government contracts set aside for ...
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Scahill: Blackwater now in the private intelligence business »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 2 months, 1 week ago in News
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 ...
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Waxmans Strategy for Undoing Blackwater »
Posted by: tehranchik 2 months, 1 week ago in News
As Waxman explained in a memo (PDF) accompanying the launch of the three investigations, they each hinge on Blackwater's self-classification of its workers as ...
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Video: USA's Shadow Army »
Posted by: SNance 2 months, 1 week ago in News
Jeremy Scahill's award winning expose on BLACKWATER, describes the controversial operations of the world's most secretive, powerful, and fastest growing private army.
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When Governments Start Going After the Weak it's Not a Good Sign. »
Posted by: Yikes_73 2 months, 1 week ago in News
Notice the t-shirt on one of the agents involved in the federal raid on the sick and the dying in the photo at left. Could ...
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Guitar Hero to Promote Recruitment? »
Posted by: play65 2 months, 1 week ago in News
The American private security company Blackwater announced distributing a video games kit over US military bases in Afghanistan and Iraq .
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Fear and loafing in the Green Zone »
Posted by: tehranchik 2 months, 1 week ago in News
Welcome to Baghdad's post-decadent stronghold: Menacing Peruvian mercenaries, Chinese prostitutes, concealed beer and doughnuts -- and Iraqis eyeing a foreboding future.
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Justice Dept. Moves Toward Charges Against Contractors in Iraq Shooting »
Posted by: Beau7890 1 month, 3 weeks ago in News
Federal prosecutors have sent target letters to six Blackwater Worldwide security guards involved in a September shooting that left 17 Iraqi civilians dead, indicating a ...
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Charges Loom For Blackwater Guards »
Posted by: TimALoftis 1 month, 3 weeks ago in News
Federal prosecutors have sent target letters to six Blackwater Worldwide security guards involved in a September shooting that left 17 Iraqi civilians dead, indicating a ...
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U.S. prosecutors target six Blackwater staff: report »
Posted by: Wil 1 month, 3 weeks ago in News
U.S. prosecutors have sent letters to six Blackwater security guards involved in a Baghdad shooting last year in a move that could lead to ...
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U.S. prosecutors target six Blackwater staff »
Posted by: Xaos 1 month, 3 weeks ago in News
U.S. prosecutors have sent letters to six Blackwater security guards involved in a Baghdad shooting last year in a move that could lead to ...
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Blackwater defends team in Baghdad shootings »
Posted by: marilynmhuling 1 month, 3 weeks ago in News
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Security contractor Blackwater said any guards who acted improperly in a deadly 2007 shooting in Baghdad should be held accountable, but believes its ...
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DOJ preparing to charge blackwater guards in Iraq killings »
Posted by: tehranchik 1 month, 3 weeks ago in News
The US Justice Department has sent so-called target letters to six Blackwater USA guards involved in the September 16 killings of 17 Iraqi civilians , the ...
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