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Blackwater Provided ‘Unauthorized’ Training in Colombia

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: August 26, 2010
Erin Rosa/Narcosphere US State Department Claims Blackwater Corporation Gave Military Training in Colombia Without Agency’s Permission Blackwater, a corporation that specializes in providing military-style training and support to other businesses and governments, recently entered into a $42 million civil settlement with the State Department this month after the agency found that the company violated international [...]
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Blackwater Founder Moves to Abu Dhabi, Records Say

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: August 19, 2010
JAMES RISEN/NYT WASHINGTON — Erik Prince, whose company, Blackwater Worldwide, is for sale and whose former top managers are facing criminal charges, has left the United States and moved to Abu Dhabi, according to court documents. Mr. Prince, a former member of the Navy Seals and an heir to a Michigan auto parts fortune, left [...]
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Feds Won’t Charge Blackwater in Sudan Sanctions Case

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: June 28, 2010
Warren P. Strobel, Jonathan S. Landay and Joseph Neff/McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON – The security contractor Blackwater Worldwide tried for two years to secure lucrative defense business in Southern Sudan while the country was under U.S. economic sanctions, according to current and former U.S. officials and hundreds of pages of documents reviewed by McClatchy.
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CIA gives Blackwater firm new $100 million contract

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: June 25, 2010
Jeff Stein/Wahington Post The Central Intelligence Agency has hired Xe Services, the private security firm formerly known as Blackwater Worldwide, to guard its facilities in Afghanistan and elsewhere, according to an industry source.
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Blackwater Firm Gets $120M U.S. Gov’t Contract

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: June 20, 2010
CBSNews.com CBS News has learned in an exclusive report that the State Department has awarded a part of what was formerly known as Blackwater Worldwide a contract worth more than $120 million for providing security services in Afghanistan.
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