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Police academy suspends classes -- Kristina Davis, Union Tribune, 2010-01-21 (Note: this academy recently pulled their contract with Blackwater/Xe to use the Blackwater Otay training facility. See Blackwater In Southwestern College for the full story on our 10-month battle to stop that contract. This additional scrutiny of their training facility may be a result as well.)
Lawsuit targets Xe over Iraq shootings -- ", Associated Press, 2009-04-02 The complaint alleges three security guards for the state-run Iraqi Media Network were shot by Blackwater security as the guards tried to move along a slowing car in the King Faisal Square traffic circle in February 2007.
Rosemount HS grad is keeping the seas safe -- Nathan Hansen, Rosemount Town Pages, 2009 News coverage that prompted the firing of Chris Waugaman, slapping him in irons, and eventually his lawsuit against Blackwater.
Audit of Permits Issued for the Blackwater Facility (in Otay Mesa) -- Jay Goldstone, City Of San Diego, 2008-06-06 Internal audit skirts the key issues and was delayed two weeks until after the election. (Received Copy on 2008-06-06; Original dated 2006-06-05. Was due on 2008-05-23.)
Raleigh couple look to sell energy -- Becca Denison, Daily Tar Heel, 2008-02-12 Blackwater Inc. spent almost $200,000 to build a turbine off the coast to help pay electricity bill
Contractors take on expanded role in drug war -- Katherine Mc Intire Peters, Government Executive, 2007-09-12 Confirms that Blackwater has contract in counter-narcoterrorism business ($15B)
Why demonize Iraq war contractors? -- Lawrence J. Haas, Union Tribune, 2007-07-31 [Haas, former communications director to Vice President Al Gore, is vice president of the Committee on the Present Danger, an anti-terrorism group.]
Gone -- Julia Whitty, Mother Jones, 2007-04-25 About species extinction figures by the eminent EO Wilson of Harvard and about the Wildlands Project to establish four major corridors or "megalinkages" in North America to head off extinction. One corridor is along the Pacific via the Sierra Nevada into the Baja Peninsula. The proposed Blackwater camp is surely on the pathway.
NTSB faults Pentagon in '04 Afghan crash -- Alan Levin and Matt Kelley, Usa Today, 2006-12-04 Blackwater is famous for not vetting and qualifying employees. Here unqualified pilots under Blackwater Air (Presidential Airways) is found at fault for Afghan crash.
President Bush Signs Coburn-Obama Transparency Act -- Tom Coburn, Barack Obama, Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, and International Security, 2006-09-26 http://www.USASpending.gov is an important database to allow us to monitor governmental contracts, including those with Blackwater.
Private Warriors -- Martin Smith, PBS Front Line, 2005-06-21 details the March 31, 2004 Blackwater catastrophe and describes the general situation with private security contractors in Iraq.