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Blackwater North
- The 80-acre facility in Mount Carroll, 150 miles west of Chicago, is a miniature version of Blackwater's 7,000-acre spread in Moyock. It contains nine shooting ranges, a climbing/rappelling/shooting tower, a classroom building and pro shop.
- Started on property where similar training already in progress.
- Plan said they would not use automatic weapons, but they do.
- LurkingBeneathTheSurfaceOfBlackwaterNorth - Article by Dan Kenney
- Lurking_Beneath_the_Surface_of_Blackwater_North.doc: Lurking Beneath the Surface of Blackwater North - Article by Dan Kenney
- Satellite Map of BlackwaterNorth location:
- Activist group organizing to fight this: http://www.noprivatearmies.org
Recent Articles and Media:
- All BlackwaterNewsMedia - This page contains all the news media about Blackwater that has been submitted to the site. Some media that is very important was recently submitted to the site but has an earlier publication date... You can find it here.
This is the most recently published 20 articles, most recent first.
M812 2009-08-07 US security firm faces fresh allegations - 07 Aug 09 -- AlJazeera 
M778 2009-05-07 Blackwater, now Xe, era ends in Iraq -- upi.com - M777 2009-04-28 22 Arrested at Blackwater's Illinois Compound -- JeremyScahill Rebel Reports
- M774 2009-04-20 Blackwater out of Iraq? No, not yet -- Matthew Lee, Mike Baker AssociatedPress
- M768 2009-04-02 Stop Blackwater Presentation, April 2009 -- RaymondLutz CitizensOversight
- M557 2008-06-15 Blackwater gets cold shoulder in Idaho -- AssociatedPress
- M561 2008-06-12 Is Blackwater coming to North Idaho? -- Kxly Com
- M605 2008-06-10 Jeremy Scahill speaks in San Diego, June 10, 2008 -- Jeremy Scahill, Raymond Lutz CitizensOversight
- M105 2007-08-10 Randi Scheurer Takes on Blackwater, Company That Abandoned Her Son in Iraq and Trains in Mt. Carroll -- Cal Skinner Mc Henry County Blog
- M94 2007-07-23 'America's private army' under fire for Illinois facility: Anti-war activists, locals are wary about military contractor's new training site -- EATorriero ChicagoTribune