Blackwater - Inside America's Private Army
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...... Three miles in is the bear
paw logo, on a sign, all by itself - a no-words-needed, top-of-the-food-chain
message......... On the other side is Blackwater USA, a booming private military
company that's helping put a new face on 21st century warfare........ Inside, a
winding road leads to the heart of the 7,000-acre compound - a bigger spread
than any military base in South Hampton Roads.
Heavy equipment scurries to and fro, moving mountains of dirt. Over here, a 6,000-foot runway is taking shape for an air wing coming up from Florida. Over there, a 1-acre hangar will shelter the company's state-of-the-art blimp project.
Just past a 15-acre lake is the new nerve center: a 65,000-square-foot headquarters with 300 rooms......
It's a controversial
arena, deeply divided by an international debate over the growing use of hired
guns...... At Blackwater, one thing is perfectly clear:
There is big money to be made in a world full of bad news.
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There is big money in trouble and the writer does not like the fact. His piece
has malice and a fair amount of presumptive fact.
Blackwater’s bullets over Baghdad
[ 6 October 2007 ]
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Blackwater USA has sprayed more
bullets over Baghdad than any government contract killers, er, cowboys. Nearly
200 shootings in Iraq since 2005, mostly from moving vehicles, no stops for body
counts, let alone helping the wounded. This
according to a new report from Congress. In fact, Blackwater is
almost an insurgency unto itself. Whatcha think?
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Blackwater is persona non grata with anyone who doesn't like mercenaries which
means most lefties. But they have made the thick end of US$1 billion so what the
Hell. Walk away with the loot. It is only tax payers money.
Miss Tori Is Doing a Six Month Tour In Iraq For Mercenaries But Not GIs [ 1 October 2007 ]
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Miss "Tori of Atlanta" evidently a top-of-the-line "escort," announced on her website that she’s headed for 6 months in Iraq in the Green Zone and will be available for contractors but not GIs
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GIs just don't get that kind of money otherwise they would be there like a rat up a drain pipe. Blackwater, Aegis and other perfectly respectable members of the mercenary community can't see the funny side of this. They even got her website taken down.
Sorry, couldn't get the right picture. There was a fuss about copyright. Perhaps it is a scheme to get the men out there.
Blackwater 'May be worse than Abu Ghraib'
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27 September 2007 ]
To describe the ongoing Blackwater scandal as a fiasco would be a dramatic understatement. Not only do we have a situation in which private security contractors stand accused of killing Iraqi civilians without provocation, we also have deep divisions brewing between the Pentagon and the State Department, coupled by State stonewalling a congressional investigation.
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The State Department has its own private army accountable to no one and MUCH better paid. They should stop them murdering peasants willy nilly. The Gestapo could control their own. Why not America?
