Secret Desert Force Set Up by Blackwater’s Founder (Published 2011)
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Late one night last November, a plane carrying dozens of Colombian men touched down in this glittering seaside capital. Whisked through customs by an Emirati intelligence officer, the group boarded an unmarked bus and drove roughly 20 miles to a windswept military complex in the desert sand. The Colombians had entered the United Arab Emirates posing as constructio
Blackwater Founder Said to Back Mercenaries (Published 2011)
WASHINGTON — Erik Prince, the founder of the international security giant Blackwater Worldwide, is backing an effort by a controversial South African mercenary firm to insert itself into Somalia’s bloody civil war by protecting government leaders, training Somali troops, and battling pirates and Islamic militants there, according to American and Western officials. The disclosure comes as Mr. Princ
30 False Fronts Won Contracts for Blackwater (Published 2010)
WASHINGTON � Blackwater Worldwide created a web of more than 30 shell companies or subsidiaries in part to obtain millions of dollars in American government contracts after the security company came under intense criticism for reckless conduct in Iraq, according to Congressional investigators and former Blackwater officials. While it is not clear how many of those businesses won contracts, at leas
Blackwater Loses a Job for the C.I.A. (Published 2009)
WASHINGTON � The Central Intelligence Agency has terminated a contract with the security company formerly called Blackwater Worldwide that allowed the company to load bombs on C.I.A. drones in Pakistan and Afghanistan, intelligence officials said Friday. The contract gave employees with the company an operational role in one of the Central Intelligence Agency’s most significant covert programs, wh
Blackwater operating at CIA Pakistan base, ex-official says
He also confirmed that Blackwater employees help to load laser-guided Hellfire missiles on to CIA-operated drones that target al-Qaida members suspected of hiding in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border regions, confirming information that surfaced in the US media in the summer. The secretive base at Shamsi is a key element in the CIA co-ordinated missile strikes that have hit more than 40 targets in t
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Risks of Afghan War Shift From Soldiers to Contractors (Published 2012)
U.S. Relies on Contractors in Somalia Conflict (Published 2011)
Exclusive: Blackwater Wins Piece of $10 Billion Mercenary Deal
This Year, Contractor Deaths Exceed Military Ones in Iraq and Afghanistan
Blackwater deal in Afghanistan questioned by Congress
Panel says firms need U.S. guidance to reduce contractors in Iraq
Interference Seen in Blackwater Inquiry (Published 2010)
Blackwater Took Hundreds of Guns From U.S. Military, Afghan Police
2 Ex-Workers Accuse Blackwater Security Company of Defrauding the U.S. for Years (Published 2010)
Iraqis Angered as Blackwater Charges Are Dropped (Published 2010)
Pentagon sees big savings in replacing contractors with federal employees
Blackwater tied to clandestine CIA raids
Blackwater Said to Pursue Bribes to Iraq After 17 Died (Published 2009)
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