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Blackwater Founder a Murderer?
Was Blackwater—the military contractor accused of abuses and overcharges in Iraq—even worse than originally thought? According to The Nation's Jeremy Scahill, who literally wrote the book about Blackwater, a former Blackwater staffer and an ex-Marine allege in a new federal court filing that the company's owner, Erik Prince, "may have murdered or facilitated the murder of individuals who were cooperating with federal authorities investigating the company." Scahill reports that "the former employee also alleges that Prince 'views himself as a Christian crusader tasked with eliminating Muslims and the Islamic faith from the globe,' and that Prince's companies 'encouraged and rewarded the destruction of Iraqi life.'" The two testified in sworn affidavits filed this week in the Eastern District of Virginia as part of a suit against Blackwater on behalf of Iraqi civilians. The pair also claim that Blackwater smuggled weapons into Iraq via Prince's private planes and hid videos, emails, and documents from the State Department. Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) told The Nation, "If these allegations are true, Blackwater has been a criminal enterprise defrauding taxpayers and murdering innocent civilians." Prince stepped down as CEO of Blackwater—which currently operates under the name of Xe Services LLC—in March. When asked about the case, a company rep said, "Unfortunately no one can help you in that area."
keepakeeper43
See also "Halliburton made Rich," "Unprotected Vehicles", "Unprotected Troops", "Blackwater Massacre" "Mercenaries made Rich", "You-Go-To-War-With-The-Army-You-Have-Not-The-
Army-You-Want - Rumsfeld", "Cheney Torture Plan", "Soldiers Electrocuted", etal.
BullMoose
Of course the snot nosed rich boy, whose Da Da lke Bush, was rich. Prince's DaDa made his money selling GM the rights to the vanity mirror for cars.
After the brat quit playing soldier, ( after he realized the real money was in contracting off Uncle Sam), he got his connections and charles Black's connection and they came up with Blackwater, since changed to another logo.
Pince is the answer, along with Monica Goodling's stacking of the Justice Department with religious right kooks, to the question the same religious right ask when they say "why liberals and moderates afraid of Christians".
Goodling, Gonzales, Cheney, Bush Charles Black,et al,should be locked up for their attempted takeover of our government institutions piecemeal.
It's my opinion of course,this speculation will probably be borne out if we had a real media, think "All the President's Men".
But corporate prostitutes who own the media except for LINKTV, which i am a contibutor to,will never let truth get in the way of profits.
Blackwater even violated the Constitution when they forced their way into private citizens homes in New Orleans. Either they acted illegally by contending they were law enforcement under the auspices of a miltary entity, or down right lied.
That is equal to quartering soldiers in the home of a private citizen, specifically put in the Constitution because of the experiences the early Patriots had with redcoats helping themselves to ransacking homes of their homes.
Yessiree, the religious right are as dangerous as any Taliban, just fly a different flag.
jst4horses
Did any of you see the Oprah special on Blackwater. Prince was there and made to look like the sweetest, all American support the flag and holding that apple pie from good old MOM.
Thank you for your comment on the journalists of today.
I wonder if our Congress has the balls to prosecute these guys? I wonder if this was part of the Cheney CIA money he had hidden away and was using for his own uses.
I wonder if Cheney was just another henchman, and if so, who is behind all this?
I wonder if we will ever know the truth.
when-the-whip-comes-down
Speaking of prince being a christian crusader G.W.Bush said in his major address to the nation on Sept20,2001 that this is a new kind of crusade. And I thought that remark was provocative. That his handlers would ask him not to try to provoke rioting but about a year ago I found on You tube that he said it publicly more than once. It just goes to show that the G.W.Bush m.o. was to create anarchy and then clean up the mess. Kind of like post invasion Iraq..... Think of how profitable that was for Halburton, Blackwater and all his buddies. I have a link to a website by a British investigative reporter who talks about the failure of our news media and for an added bonus, a dam good story,to boot. http://www.gregpalast.com/the-goods-on-goodling-and-the-keys-to-the-kingdom /
when-the-whip-comes-down
The news media was affected by deregulation since the Carter administration where the cons were free to gobble up all the outlets. This placed the news media on one side of the isle. I shudder to think of what could have happened. Even msnbc is owned by Rockefeller, so how much of the story do you think you are really getting?
Mauiboy
Blackwater used the Constitution and the laws of the US to clean their guns and shine up their boots!
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n--Y--Liberal09hardrain
No surprise here.
Bunch of murderous thugs.
dem4life
is anyone surprised?????another busg administration flunky
wbishop12
This guy reminds me of Damien from The Omen. Pure evil.
idicula1979
LOL, and Cheney reminds me of Crede from V for Vendetta.
dem4life
ANOTHER BUSH FLUNKY
idicula1979
Of course if people watched Kieth Olbermann they would already know this, as he is Always ahaed of the curve. Most people would like to dismiss him and compare him to a Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh ( or anyother right wing nut bag) but that is because most people are idiots.
JDK-JDK
Most negative opinions about Olbermann were cultivated and given life by himself.
I used to like him... until he started playing purely party politics.
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n--Y--crashtextDummymatthewbenzor
Nobody wants to listen.This blackwater is a freemason army created by a freemason owner.They need to be broken up.That's all there is too it.
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