Several victims of a 2007 shooting involving American private security guards employed by the firm formerly known as Blackwater alleged Sunday that they were coerced into reaching settlements, and they demanded that the Iraqi government intervene to have the agreements nullified.
The Iraqis said they were pressured by their own attorneys into accepting what they now [...]
“We need to view this sober reality,” Scahill told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on Thursday. “The war is in Pakistan right now. There’s no question about it. The question, though, is how much it’s going to expand. … These are actions that are going to destabilize Pakistan and are going to create new enemies for the United [...]
Thursday, December 3, 2009
If this account is correct, it raises a host of questions. Among them is whether CIA director Leon Panetta, who reportedly shut down the program immediately after learning of it and promptly briefed Congress, misinformed lawmakers about the nature of this effort, its targets, and just how operational it actually was. If, as Prince claims, [...]
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Jeremy Scahill talks with Keith Olbermann about Erik Prince and Xe Services / Blackwater.
There are far more non-Christians than there are Christians in the world, and the kind of atrocity these people commit only alienates people from Christianity. I would consider Blackwater to be a terrorist organization, the Christian equivalent of Al Qaeda, except [...]
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Top executives at Blackwater Worldwide [now known as Xe] authorized secret payments of about $1 million to Iraqi officials that were intended to silence their criticism and buy their support after a September 2007 episode in which Blackwater security guards fatally shot 17 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad, according to former company officials.
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Four former executives said [...]
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