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Mercenary Outfit Send Mass Email Offering Positions in the Wake of Gustav

Blackwater is compiling a list of qualified security personnel for possible deployment into areas affected by Hurricane Gustav. Applicants must meet all items listed under the respective Officer posting and be US citizens. Contract length is TBD.

Blackwater's "get out of jail" card

After its involvement in the shooting of 17 Iraqi citizens last year, a criminal investigation by the FBI, internal investigations by the State Department and the Pentagon, and high-profile Congressional hearings, the people at Blackwater walk free with reports that it won't face criminal charges.

State Dept. inspector general resigns - and gets all Biblical about it…

Howard Krongard, State Dept. Inspector General, has not only announced his resignation, he's perhaps invoked divine wrath on himself doing so....

Blackwater goes on the offensive - this time after actually being attacked...

Blackwater's Erik Prince is making the rounds of MSM talk and interview shows to burnish Blackwater USA's image even as more negative evidence emerges about the shooting of Iraqi civilians by the company's security guards.

More Elite Than Our Millitary?

Why are United States taxpayers paying the private military and security firm Blackwater, $1,222 a day for the services of each of its single protective security specialist? By most estimates that amount is six times what it would cost for a U.S. soldier to perform the same duty.

Blackwater Probed For Weapons Smuggling , Feds Investigate Suspicions Security Firm Employees Sold W

Federal prosecutors are investigating whether employees of the private security firm Blackwater USA illegally smuggled weapons into Iraq that might have been sold on the black market and ended up in the hands of a U.S.-designated terror organization, U.S. officials say.

Iraq pulls Blackwater's license, for now - and Waxman wants hearings

The Iraqi "government" has expelled Blackwater Security from its job to commit legalized mayhem provide security services in Iraq - for now, anyway. And Rep. Waxman is promising hearings on Blackwater's activities in Iraq...

Mercenary Jackpot

While the Bush Administration calls for the immediate disbanding of what it has labeled "private" and "illegal" militias in Lebanon and Iraq, it is pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into its own global private mercenary army tasked with protecting US officials and institutions overseas. The secretive program, which spans at least twenty-seven countries, has been an incredible jackpot for one heavily Republican-connected firm in particular: Blackwater USA.