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Avatar Posted by WBuffet 441 days ago (http://www.huffingtonpost.com)
Category: News Business and Finance | Tags: occupation war iraq blackwater market
With the latest Blackwater screwup (or massacre, depending on which end of the gun you happen to be on) we may be looking at a quasi market decision read more »
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Avatar Posted by intelligent 437 days ago (http://afp.google.com)
Category: News Business and Finance | Tags: blackwater back streets baghdad despite opposition prime minister nuri al-maliki
BAGHDAD (AFP) — Despite opposition from Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, US security company Blackwater was back on the streets of Baghdad on Friday, f read more »
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Avatar Posted by bear 437 days ago (http://ap.google.com)
Category: News Business and Finance | Tags: feds target blackwater weapons probe federal prosecutors investigating
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors are investigating whether employees of the private security firm Blackwater USA illegally smuggled into Iraq we read more »
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Avatar Posted by moneymaker 437 days ago (http://seattletimes.nwsource.com)
Category: News Business and Finance | Tags: blackwater investigation expands baghdad iraq shooting allegations
BAGHDAD — Iraq's probe into a deadly shooting by Blackwater USA in Baghdad last weekend has expanded to include allegations about the security firm read more »
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Avatar Posted by intelligent 436 days ago (http://www.washingtonpost.com)
Category: News Business and Finance | Tags: u.s. repeatedly rebuffed iraq blackwater complaints senior iraqi officials involvement
BAGHDAD, Sept. 22 -- Senior Iraqi officials repeatedly complained to U.S. officials about Blackwater USA's alleged involvement in the deaths of nume read more »
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Avatar Posted by power 435 days ago (http://www.latimes.com)
Category: News Business and Finance | Tags: iraqi official blackwater exit not feasible baghdad conceded private
BAGHDAD -- -- An Iraqi official conceded Sunday that expelling a private U.S. firm accused in the deaths of at least 11 Iraqi civilians would leave a read more »
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Avatar Posted by Marker 432 days ago (http://www.crooksandliars.com)
Category: Politics | Tags: blackwater scandal u.s. military state department abu ghraib
To describe the ongoing Blackwater scandal as a fiasco would be a dramatic understatement. Not only do we have a situation in which private security read more »
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Avatar Posted by power 427 days ago (http://www.nytimes.com)
Category: News Business and Finance | Tags: report describes drunk contractor killing iraqi washington blackwater usa
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 — A Blackwater USA employee under investigation in the killing last December of an Iraqi bodyguard in an off-duty confrontation wa read more »
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Avatar Posted by power 427 days ago (http://www.cnn.com)
Category: News Business and Finance | Tags: blackwater contractor wrote government report incident baghdad iraq the state department
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The State Department's initial report of last month's incident in which Blackwater guards were accused of killing Iraqi civi read more »
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Avatar Posted by power 426 days ago (http://www.nytimes.com)
Category: News Business and Finance | Tags: chief blackwater defends employees washington erik d. prince chief executive
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 — Erik D. Prince, chief executive of Blackwater USA, told a Congressional committee on Tuesday that his company’s nearly 1,000 arm read more »
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Avatar Posted by Marker 423 days ago (http://www.washingtonpost.com)
Category: News Business and Finance | Tags: military blackwater shooting iraqi
BAGHDAD, Oct. 4 -- U.S. military reports from the scene of the Sept. 16 shooting incident involving the security firm Blackwater USA indicate that it read more »
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Avatar Posted by power 422 days ago (http://www.latimes.com)
Category: News Business and Finance | Tags: state dept. ignored blackwater warnings washington the state department
WASHINGTON -- The State Department, which is facing growing criticism of its policy on private security contractors, overlooked repeated warnings fro read more »
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Avatar Posted by WBuffet 420 days ago (http://news.yahoo.com)
Category: News Business and Finance | Tags: iraq blackwater to pay 136 million compensation
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The Iraqi government wants U.S. security firm Blackwater to pay $8 million in compensation to each of the families of 17 people k read more »
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Avatar Posted by lazyguy 418 days ago (http://news.yahoo.com)
Category: News Business and Finance | Tags: state department phase out blackwater iraqi
WASHINGTON - The State Department may phase out or limit the use of private security guards in Iraq, which could mean canceling Blackwater USA's con read more »
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Avatar Posted by Jackie 412 days ago (http://fff.org)
Category: Politics | Tags: blackwater privatization iraq war free market
If Iraq is really a sovereign country, which is the fiction maintained by the Bush administration, then why aren’t the Blackwater USA personnel who a read more »
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Avatar Posted by Jason 406 days ago (http://oversight.house.gov)
Category: News Business and Finance | Tags: tax evasion blackwater social security federal tax laws
New documents suggest that Blackwater may have engaged in significant tax evasion, failing to withhold and pay millions of dollars in Social Security read more »
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Avatar Posted by Magnus 404 days ago (http://blogs.abcnews.com)
Category: News Business and Finance | Tags: blackwater iraq war sean mccormack contractors in iraq military state department richard griffin
The assistant secretary of state, who oversaw diplomatic security, submitted his resignation in the wake of a report critical of his handling of Blac read more »
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Avatar Posted by Magnus 399 days ago (http://www.washingtonpost.com)
Category: News Business and Finance | Tags: blackwater iraq mercenaries contractors immunity unprovoked shooting
Potential prosecution of Blackwater guards allegedly involved in the shooting deaths of 17 Iraqi civilians last month may have been compromised becau read more »
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