Tag: mercenaries
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blackwater twenty-four
san diego mayor blocks blackwaterfrom danger room: Blackwater Worldwide’s plans for West Coast expansion have hit another roadblock. After already backing away from one possible site in Potrero, Blackwater is now faced with a legal challenge to its plans to open a training facility in leased warehouse space in San Diego. “The company has leased…
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blackwater unlikely to face charges for sept07 shootout
from thinkprogress: In September 2007, Blackwater guards in Iraq engaged in an unprovoked attack, according to witnesses, that killed 11 civilians. The AP reports today that the contractor “is not expected to face criminal charges” over the shooting, “all but ensuring the company will keep its multimillion-dollar contract to protect U.S. diplomats”… Families of the…
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some good news: blackwater ends bid for cali camp
from ap: Military security contractor Blackwater Worldwide has pulled its plans to build a training facility in a remote area about 45 miles east of San Diego… Potrero, home to about 850 people, found itself split by the plan, with environmentalist and anti-war factions ardently opposing those who welcomed the prospect of an economic boost…
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Shooter, Spy Sat Cover, DHS Death, Buffet, Blackwater, Beijing
shooter did time in mental health facilityfrom washington times: A former employee at a Chicago psychiatric treatment center said Kazmierczak had been placed there after high school by his parents. He used to cut himself and had resisted taking his medications, she said. Kazmierczak spent more than a year at the Thresholds-Mary Hill House in…
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radiation pills, blackwater ills, gold & a ‘gannon moment’
white house drops anti-radiation pill planfrom upi: The Bush administration has dropped a program to distribute anti-radiation pills to citizens who live near nuclear reactors, officials said. John Marburger, U.S. President George Bush’s top science adviser, said Monday the over-the-counter potassium iodide pills “offer negligible additional protection” against radiation exposure and there were more effective…
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buzzy’s brother quits the state department
inspector general will leave state departmentfrom washington post: Howard J. Krongard, the State Department’s embattled inspector general, announced yesterday that he is stepping down next month, ending a turbulent tenure in which he came under fire from employees and lawmakers and was accused of impeding key Iraq-related investigations… Current and former department officials have charged…
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news on the march
for god’s saic!from op-ed news: Who in the hell is SAIC? Who in the hell is it’s former chairman, J. Robert Beyster? For that matter, who in the hell is its current chairman, Kenneth C. Dalhberg? Well, after some virtual footstepping and some practical considerations, my conclusions lead to the word, trouble. Big trouble! ……
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new al-cia-duh created to fight old al-cia-duh
from truthnews: The US is considering a plan to create gangs of mercenaries from local population in the border areas of Pakistan to fight al-Qaida & the Taliban, emulating its tactics in Iraq’s Anbar province. The plan would involve increasing the number of US trainers in Pakistan by dozens from the current number of around…
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blackwater’s new weapon: laser dazzlers
from danger room: The State Department has a high-tech solution to keeping its security contractors from killing any more Iraqi civilians unnecessarily: Give the mercs laser dazzlers and helmet cameras. U.S. officials also tell ABC News that “the State Department plans to double the number of its diplomatic security agents to 90 so that one…
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‘unjustified’
from raw story: An FBI investigation has found that 14 of the 17 Blackwater shootings were “unjustified and violated deadly-force rules in effect for security contractors in Iraq”, according to a New York Times report. Seventeen people were killed when Blackwater private security guards opened fire in a crowded Baghdad neighborhood as they protected a…
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state dept can’t account for $1b paid to dyncorp
question: how much was spent on establishing a prostitution and slave ring in bosnia? from nytimes: A pair of new reports have delivered sharply critical judgments about the State Department’s performance in overseeing work done by the private companies that the government relies on increasingly in Iraq and Afghanistan to carry out delicate security work…
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blackwatergate: erik prince testifies before congress
from raw story: The chairman of Blackwater USA, which is facing intense scrutiny over the deaths of a dozen Iraqi civilians last month, defended his private security contractors working in Iraq, while Republicans worked to paint the hearing as little more than an attempt for Democrats to score partisan points. In sworn testimony Erik Prince,…
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september clearinghouse
ron paul – the internet sensation video: kevin barrett questions amy goodman on building 7 international narcotics agenda behind myanmar instability cheney to address top secret conservative policy group gun bill rewrites law to disarm more americans defense stocks hit new highs pentagon seeks $190bn war funds security company death squads timeline mukasey poised to…
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blackwater’s license (to kill) being revoked in iraq
from afp: Iraq has ordered the cancellation of the operating licence of US security firm Blackwater after it was involved in a shootout in Baghdad that killed eight people, a senior official told AFP on Monday. Blackwater offers personal security to US officials working in Iraq. “The interior minister (Jawad al-Bolani) has issued an order…
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hired guns in iraq killing for amusement
from propaganda matrix/washington post: On the afternoon of July 8, 2006, four private security guards rolled out of Baghdad’s Green Zone in an armored SUV. The team leader, Jacob C. Washbourne, rode in the front passenger seat. He seemed in a good mood. His vacation started the next day. “I want to kill somebody today,”…