
How does a 10 year old company become the world's largest play for pay outsourcing scheme for hired guns? At the rate the mercenaries at Blackwater claim to be able to train military personnel, we should have been able to swap out every single American soldier with an Iraqi GI or private pirate. I leave it for others to connect the dots between Blackwater and Dick Cheney, the black hearted.
Time/CNN -- Blackwater landed its first truly high-profile contract: guarding Ambassador L. Paul Bremer in Iraq, at the cost of $21 million in 11 months. Since June 2004, Blackwater has been paid more than $320 million out of a $1 billion, five-year State Department budget for the Worldwide Personal Protective Service, which protects U.S. officials and some foreign officials in conflict zones.
It may be difficult now for the fledgling friendly fire firm to deliver on its Iraq contract now that the Iraqi government has withdrawn its license to operate following the most recent civilian killings involving Blackwater's best and brightest.
Blackwater license being pulled in Iraq
BAGHDAD - The [Iraqi] Interior Ministry said it would prosecute any foreign contractors found to have used excessive force in the Sunday shooting [during an attack on a U.S. State Department motorcade]. It was the latest accusation against the U.S.-contracted firms that operate with little or no supervision
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