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? Erik Prince, the founder and spokesperson for Blackwater, says that the disagreeable word #8220;mercenary #8221; doesn #8217;t apply to their company because a...
Battle Lines Drawn: Residents of rural Potrero fight to halt Blackwater #8217;s proposed military training camp By Miriam Raftery, The East County Californian Pa...
Read and endorse our Open Letter To Congress regarding dismissal of Blackwater and enactment of the Stop Outsourcing Security Act. Blackwater Worldwide (formerly...
CongressionalOversightOfBlackwater * AdditionalInformationAboutBlackwaterUSA.pdf: Additional Information About Blackwater USA prior to Erik Prince Testimony on O...
* Forest Service Map of "Kearchoffer Flat" (site of Covert Canyon): Note that the site is just over the hill from the community at the end of Lawson Valley Rd....
_Potrero Blackwater battle in national spotlight_ By Miriam Raftery The East County Californian April 26, 2007 After The East County Californian published a thre...
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HassoonVsXe This case relates to Sabah Salman Hassoon and two others who were shot by Xe Blackwater on February 7, 2007 as they worked as security guards at the r...
JarallahVsXe This case relates to 53 year old school teacher at the technical institution in the City of Al Amara, Maysan province. He was visiting Bagdad, on beh...
Filner wants review of Blackwater He considers bill to stop Potrero plan By Anne Krueger STAFF WRITER April 14, 2007 Rep. Bob Filner says he is exploring legis...
30 False Fronts Won Contracts for Blackwater By JAMES RISEN and MARK MAZZETTI Published: September 3, 2010 WASHINGTON Blackwater Worldwide created a web of mo...
By JAMES RISEN WASHINGTON A federal appeals court on Friday reopened the criminal case against four former American military contractors accused of manslaughter...
RALEIGH, N.C. A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that blamed the security company formerly known as Blackwater for the deaths of four contractors killed in...
Secret Desert Force Set Up by Blackwater s Founder By MARK MAZZETTI and EMILY B. HAGER ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates Late one night last November, a plane ca...
April 19, 2007 Blackwater Plans for New Military Facility Near San Diego Draws Fire From Residents, Peace Activists and Local Congressmember The private secur...
Tibor Fischer reviews Blackwater: the Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army by Jeremy Scahill His father was a self made millionaire. He became a US Na...
by Nathan Hodge MOYOCK, N.C. #8212;First rule of Blackwater is: You do not talk to the clients. Back in October, I travelled to Camden County, North Carolina for ...
It seems right out of a shoot 'em up Hollywood thriller: A shadowy private American security company led by a messianic right winger by the name of Erik Prince wh...
Erik Prince is the chairman of the Hong Kong listed logistics and securities company Frontier Services Group, an Africa focused company that is building a pan Afr...
By MIKE BAKER #8211; 50 minutes ago RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) #8212; When a former Navy SEAL launched Blackwater USA in North Carolina's swamplands a decade ago, he en...
TIME has obtained an incident report prepared by the U.S. government describing a fire fight Sunday in Baghdad in which at least eight Iraqis were reported killed...
By JeremyScahill, TheNation So far Blackwater has only received a slap on the wrist after killing innocent civilians. Are the U.S. and Iraqi governments finally r...
The FayettevilleObserver Published on Tuesday, October 02, 2007 By Henry Cuningham, Military editor Blackwater USA, the North Carolina based military contractor u...
Monday, Oct. 01, 2007 Blackwater Plans a Fierce Defense By Adam Zagorin / Washington "No individual protected by Blackwater has ever been killed or seriously inju...
(CNN) Erik Prince, the chairman and CEO of Blackwater USA, appeared Tuesday before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. The committee convened ...
Blamed in the deaths of Iraqi civilians, the private security firm has long ties to the White House and prominent Republicans, including Ken Starr. By Ben Van Heu...
For Immediate Release: October 2, 2007 Contact: Peter Karafotas (202) 226 6898 SCHAKOWSKY UNVEILS BILL TO PHASE OUT PRIVATE MILITARY CONTRACTORS Washin...
A Brief History of Citizens' Oversight Projects I think it may help if I give a thumbnail sketch of the history of this entity. It is a 501(c)3 nonpartisan nonpro...
* Story Highlights * Husband mourns wife, son a month after they were killed in Baghdad * Man's wife was a doctor; his son hoped to be a surgeon * Witnes...
JeremyScahill on Blackwater http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/10192007/transcript1.html October 19, 2007 Bill Moyers talks journalist Jeremy Scahill, Part 1 BILL...
By RICHARD LARDNER WASHINGTON (AP) #8212; Blackwater USA tried to take at least two Iraqi military aircraft out of Iraq two years ago and refused to give the p...
/Dutiful and intense, son of a self made billionaire, Erik Prince is an adventure seeker and conservative true believer. / By Evan Thomas and Mark Hosenball Oct....
By FrankRich The NewYorkTimes Sunday 21 October 2007 It was one of those stories lost in the newspaper's inside pages. Last week a man you've never heard of ...
The Hill Waxman: Blackwater may have engaged in tax evasion By Klaus Marre October 22, 2007 The chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee a...
The notorious security contractor has plans for a military style complex near the U.S. Mexico border. Critics worry the firm's "mercenary soldiers" could join the...
The GrandRapidsPress Wednesday, May 16, 2007 By ErikPrince Special To The Press In response to a series of articles about me and my company, Blackwater USA, I am ...
Posted October 25, 2007 We couldn't make this stuff up. Brian Bonfiglio, vice president of Blackwater West, "I see a tactical operation center for East County fir...
Founder Erik Prince Says Blackwater Guards Came Under Fire In Controversial Shooting (CBS) Blackwater USA has been called the largest private army in the world bu...
Wall Street Journal Killing by Blackwater Worker Poses Dilemma for U.S. Authorities By YOCHI J. DREAZEN May 14, 2007;PageA4 BAGHDAD, Iraq A Blackwater USA contr...
IRAQ: When Blackwater Kills, No Questions Asked By Ali al Fadhily* BAGHDAD, Oct 30 (IPS) The recent attacks by Blackwater USA mercenaries in Baghdad are far fro...
HOLLAND Intensely private like his late father Edgar Prince, Erik Prince has moved into the national spotlight because of a best selling book about his elite priv...
Rapture Rescue 911: Disaster Response for the Chosen Naomi Klein Posted November 1, 2007 (November 19, 2007 issue) I used to worry that the United States was...
By Dana Hedgpeth Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, November 3, 2007; A01 First it became a brand name in security for its work in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now i...
at the end of lines that need to break but don't need a blank line. * Mark sub headline with header 3 " " At a congressional hearing, the security firm and...
at the end of lines that need to break but don't need a blank line. * Mark sub headline with header 3 " " By Henry Cuningham Military editor Blackwater USA, t...
Kent Hoover Washington Bureau Chief The Small Business Administration has found itself in the middle of the controversy over Blackwater USA, the private security ...
By DAVID STOUT and JOHN M. BRODER Published: October 1, 2007 WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 #8212; Guards working in Iraq for Blackwater USA have shot innocent Iraqi civilia...
The only punishment doled out to US security men involved in deadly shootings is a jet home Jeremy Scahill Saturday October 6, 2007 Guardian Erik Prince, the secr...
Thursday, October 11th, 2007 The Center for Constitutional Rights is filing a lawsuit today under the Alien Tort Claims Act on behalf of the families of three of ...
By Adam Howard, AlterNet Posted on November 6, 2007 They have their own army, air force and more. Maher asks Scahill, "Could Blackwater stage a coup and if they d...
By ADAM ZAGORIN/WASHINGTON Wednesday, November 7 A little noticed court case in Florida threatens to undermine the arrangement under which some 150,000 private co...
(SUMMARY) "They were on a joy ride," she said of the pilots. "They were cowboying." "To know, as a mother, he sat out and froze to death bleeding internally is th...
By Karyn Chenoweth Nov 8, 2007, 14:50 GMT The mother of a Blackwater guard who was mutilated and killed by a mob in Iraq is demanding that the company answer her ...
By Karen DeYoung Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, November 14, 2007; 1:33 PM The FBI has concluded that the killing of 14 Iraqi civilians by Blackwater sec...
Washington Dispatch: Accused of blocking an investigation into Blackwater, State Department IG Howard Krongard told Congress that his brother Buzzy has no ties to...
The Associated Press Published: November 16, 2007 WASHINGTON: The brother of the embattled State Department Inspector General quit as an adviser to Blackwater Wor...
State Department IG Howard "Cookie" Krongard's testimony before Waxman's committee earlier this week is becoming the gift that keeps on giving. At the hearing, Kr...
After a deadly crash, one Washington family tries to bring the notorious military contractor to account. By Rick Anderson November 14, 2007 Two days after Thanksg...
By AUGUST COLE November 16, 2007 6:23 p.m. WASHINGTON #8212;Blackwater Worldwide announced that Alvin "Buzzy" Krongard has resigned from the company's advisory b...
article posted November 15, 2007 (web only) Jeremy Scahill Every day, new revelations emerge in the mounting scandal rocking the Bush Administration and the merce...
By RICHARD LARDNER #8211; November 17, 2007 WASHINGTON (AP) #8212; The brother of embattled State Department Inspector General Howard Krongard quit as an advise...
State Dept. Inspector General Must Appear With His Blackwater Board Member Brother By MATT JAFFE Nov. 16, 2007 Days after testifying that he had only just learned...
Floyd J. McKay / Guest columnist BLACKWATER, the secretive private army now emerging into public view, is a perfect hinge linking two key elements of the Republic...
The Guardian UK Rural community opposes expansion by company at centre of Iraq allegations Dan Glaister in Potrero, California Friday November 30, 2007 Randel Par...
By RICHARD LARDNER #8211; November 26, 2007 WASHINGTON (AP) #8212; The State Department's acerbic top auditor wasn't happy when Justice Department officials tol...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 /PRNewswire USNewswire/ The estates of two more Iraqis killed when Blackwater USA personnel allegedly opened fire on civilians in Nisoor Squ...
All Things Considered, December 17, 2007 · By now, most Americans are familiar with Blackwater USA's controversial shooting in Baghdad last September. Seventeen I...
NPR.org, December 14, 2007 · The Defense Authorization Bill passed by Congress contains provisions that tighten government oversight of private security contracto...
By Jeremy Scahill from the December 24, 2007 issue Gunning down seventeen Iraqi civilians in an incident the military has labeled "criminal." Multiple Congressi...
Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney cited Cofer Black, the former head of Counterterrorism at the CIA, as his advisor on issues involving prisoner interro...
CA Author: Courage Campaign Published on Dec 12, 2007, 10:55 In a stunning victory that shocked even the most optimistic observers, five members of an elected bod...
By Anne Krueger UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER December 13, 2007 Strictly speaking, a vote removing five members of the Potrero planning group for their support of a ...
Posted December 12, 2007 05:14 AM (EST) A tiny town in the pristine high wilderness of eastern San Diego County made history tonight with the nation's first eve...
By Bill Sizemore On Christmas Eve 2006, in an alcohol fueled confrontation inside Baghdad #8217;s heavily fortified Green Zone, a Blackwater security contractor s...
By Allison Hoffman Associated Press Writer / December 12, 2007 SAN DIEGO #8212;Government security contractor Blackwater Worldwide reaffirmed plans Wednesday to b...
Last week in Currituck County, N.C., Superior Court Judge Russell Duke presided over the final step in securing the first criminal conviction stemming from the de...
By LARA JAKES JORDAN and MATT APUZZO, AP Posted: 2008 01 14 06:26:53 Filed Under: World News WASHINGTON (Jan. 14) _ Blackwater Worldwide repaired and repainted it...
Posted by Jeremy Scahill, AlterNet at 9:33 AM on February 2, 2008. If there's one thing that can be said about Blackwater Worldwide, the Bush administration's fav...
Posted: 02/04/2008 Regnery Publishing today announced that it has signed a contract with Erik Prince, Chairman and CEO of Blackwater Worldwide. Prince #8217;s boo...
By Miriam Raftery The East County Californian May 31, 2008 County officials have announced plans to shut down Covert Canyon, a military and law enforcement train...
Whether this mattered to him or not, Judge Duke's words were interesting, given the religious fanaticism and avowed patriotism of Blackwater's owner, Erik Prince....
BARCO, N.C. It started as a simple question during an online chat with Marshall Adame, a Democrat and retired Marine running for Congress in North Carolina's 3rd ...
By Noah Shachtman EmailFebruary 29, 2008 10:42:00 AM Just as Blackwater had finally fallen from the headlines and the boys in Moyock thought their State Departm...
Need a private label armored vehicle? A detachment of Chilean infantrymen? A special forces "engagement team"? Erik Prince's expanding global private army is at y...
Chris Hedges is a graduate of Harvard Divinity School and won a Pulitzer Prize as a foreign correspondent for the New York Times. Armed units from the private sec...
Security training camp won't be built in Potrero By Anne Krueger UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER March 8, 2008 Blackwater Worldwide dropped its plans yesterday to buil...
The Associated Press GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) #8212; The founder of private security contractor Blackwater Worldwide plans to speak to a meeting of the Grand ...
By Kevin Martinez 26 March 2008 On March 7, private contractor Blackwater Worldwide announced it was abandoning plans to construct a military and police training ...
Rifles given to sheriff in deal that skirts law The private military company Blackwater has found an unusual way to skirt federal laws that prohibit private parti...
No matter who wins the White House, the security firm is shooting for lucrative work. By JeremyScahill June 16, 2008 From California to Iraq, business has never b...
Company is sister to N.C. based Blackwater JosephNeff and Jay rice, Staff Writers RALEIGH To defend itself against a lawsuit by the widows of three American sol...
By Daniel J. Callahan and Marc P. Miles, AlterNet Posted on June 8, 2007, Printed on June 8, 2007 http://www.alternet.org/story/53460/ The following article is by...
By Harvey Morris at the United Nations Published: June 19 2008 03:00 Last updated: June 19 2008 03:00 Mia Farrow, the actress and activist, has asked Blackwater...
RALEIGH BlackwaterWorldwide, the North Carolina company that is famous and in some quarters infamous for its security work in Iraq, has been misunderstood and...
By Adam Howard Posted on June 10, 2007, Printed on June 12, 2007 http://www.alternet.org/bloggers//53723/ Blackwater USA, the nefarious sounding and behaving cont...
by Sandra Svoboda Training Iraqi soldiers in SWAT procedures didn't seem like mercenary work to Greg, who took a yearlong leave of absence from a Midwestern polic...
by Matthew Schwarzfeld July 14, 2008 12:04 pm EDT Tags: Blackwater, Iraq, Military Contractor Abuse Scandal July 14: This post has been corrected. Private secu...
Regarding Q A with Blackwater's Erik Prince and Brian Bonfiglio (Dialog, July 27): I wonder how much of what these two Blackwater executives say can be believed...
The Democratic leadership in Congress is once again gearing up for a great sell out on the Iraq war. While the wrangling over the $124 billion Iraq supplemental s...
July 27, 2008 Erik Prince, founder and CEO of Blackwater USA, and Brian Bonfiglio, a Blackwater vice president in San Diego, recently met with the Union Tribune's...
POLITICS US: One Fifth of Iraq Funding Paid to ContractorsBy William FisherNEW YORK, Aug 14 (IPS) As a new report forecasts that the 190,000 private contractors...
Blackwater guards face prosecution over killing of 17 Iraqi civilians Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 By James Bone Six Blackwater Worldwide security guards have ...
A training camp for members of law enforcement and the military is being proposed in Imperial County that opponents say is disturbingly similar to a facility plan...
Blackwater Backlash Getty Images Erik Prince, chairman of the Prince Group, LLC and Blackwater USA, holds up a picture showing the affect of a car bomb while te...
I came to the "whitewash" realization after listening to the Justice Department press conference of the 35 charge indictment. You can watch this on the CSPAN web...
by JeremyScahill from the May 8, 2006 issue It is one of the most infamous incidents of the war in Iraq: On March 31, 2004, four private American security contr...
When four Blackwater USA security guards were ambushed and massacred in Fallujah in 2004, graphic images showed the world exactly what happened: four men killed, ...
Blackwater: private US security firm mired in Iraq controversy Contractor effectively kicked out of Iraq over alleged killing of civilians * Audrey Gillan ...
(Video: http://www.kpbs.org/tv/full_focus;id=8977 ) The joke around Potrero is if you're on Highway 94 and you blink, you just might miss the town. Potrero is sma...
Blackwater Sheds Tarnished Name: New Name Is 'Xe' MIKE BAKER February 13, 2009 11:56 AM EST RALEIGH, N.C. Blackwater Worldwide is abandoning its tarn...
Blackwater Changes Its Name, Shall Now Be Called the Knights Who Say 'Xe' By Jeremy Scahill, AlterNetPosted on February 13, 2009, Printed on February 14, 2009 ht...
Walter Taylor, Staff Writer ELIZABETHTOWN #8212; A wild stretch of the Cape Fear River serves as a classroom. Instructor Paul Imhoff of Blackwater USA, a private...
LOCAL LETTERS It's a new (bad) name, but same Blackwater 2:00 a.m. February 28, 2009 About the company formerly known as Blackwater: Is a bad name the same as a ...
Jeremy Scahill Independent journalist, author, Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army Posted March 2, 2009 12:34 PM (EST) BIO Become a...
Tuesday, March 17, 2009 EXCLUSIVE: New deal for Blackwater Jim McElhatton ( Contact) Days after the Baghdad government decided it no longer wanted the company t...
Last update: 10:33 a.m. EDT March 20, 2009 WASHINGTON, March 20, 2009 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ A heavily intoxicated Blackwater "shooter" randomly murdered an I...
Blackwater, now Xe, era ends in Iraq Published: May 7, 2009 at 10:44 AM Chairman of Blackwater USA Erik Prince is sworn in prior to testifying before a House Over...
The chief executive of private security contractor Blackwater USA said Thursday that better trained police officers could have helped limit the carnage in the Vir...
Partner content from: The Nation: Blackwater Seeks Gag Order by Jeremy Scahill Gervasio Sanchez Plainclothes contractors working for Blackwater USA take part in ...
Blackwater Founder Implicated in Murder By Jeremy Scahill August 4, 2009 A former Blackwater employee and an ex US Marine who has worked as a security operativ...
Army reclaims $20 million charge Jay Price, Staff Writer The News Observer February 8, 2007 WASHINGTON The Army snatched back $20 million from the giant m...
By Jeremy Scahill August 14, 2009 Despite the Iraqi government's announcement earlier this year that it had canceled Blackwater's operating license, the US State...
By ADAM GOLDMAN and PAMELA HESS, The Associated Press 3:47 a.m. August 31, 2009 FILE In this Oct. 2, 2007, file photo, Blackwater USA founder, Erik Prince, tes...
posted by Laura Flanders on 08/26/2009 @ 11:25am A US drone firing missiles into a village in northern Pakistan killed at least 19 people over the weekend. The ta...
By Bill Berkowitz OAKLAND, Jun 29 (IPS) Ten years ago, Erik Prince, the son of a conservative multi millionaire, founded the security consulting firm Blackwater...
Cindy McCain Bankrolled Conference That Called for Ban on Mercenaries The McCain Conference on Ethics and Military Leadership appears to be ahead of the senator...
This conference was excellent. I understand that Erik Prince (Blackwater Xe) also made a presentation, and it is alluded to by the other speakers, but the video o...
Judge Refuses to Dismiss War Crimes Case Against Blackwater By Jeremy Scahill October 22, 2009 On Wednesday, a federal judge rejected a series of arguments b...
Blackwater Said to Pursue Bribes to Iraq After 17 Died By MARK MAZZETTI and JAMES RISEN WASHINGTON Top executives at Blackwater Worldwide authorized secret paym...
There are 48,000 'security contractors' in Iraq, working for private companies growing rich on the back of US policy. But can it be a good thing to have so many m...
Endorse this letter now! UPDATE 2010 02 23 SOS BILL HAS BEEN INTRODUCED * Read the Senate version of the bill here: http://sanders.senate.gov/files/SOS%20...
OtayTip The following email was received from (NAME WITHHELD), with timestamp of 22 Apr 2008 3:40am PDT. I would guess this came from the east coast, perhaps Wash...
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SaadoonVsXe 3:09 cv 00561 W LSP Estate of Raheem Khalaf Sa'adoon et al v. XE et al Current Status Answers to complaints due, Moonen by 5/1/09. Xe, Blackwater, E...
StopBlackwaterNisourMassacreRally IMPORTANT EVENT \ Car driven by Ahmed Haithem Ahmed with his mother, Mohassin Kadhim, a physician. They were both kill...
StopOutsourcingSecurityAct 111TH CONGRESS 2D SESSION S.XXX To phase out the use of private military contractors. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES ...
Tiny Potrero Battles County and Blackwater USA By DonBauder Published on February 22, 2007 The hamlet of Potrero in southeast San Diego County, 45 miles from the ...