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Hunt of the Sea Wolves (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
ISN Security Watch: In February 2007, Erik Prince, founder of the infamous private military company, Blackwater Worldwide, started what seems to be the next most lucrative market for such companies: intelligence gathering and analysis. The new venture exists as a nexus of three companies that were quietly assembled by Prince the year before: the Black Group, LLC, [...]
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International Security Network (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
A profile of Blackwater Worldwide, a private security and military company, with a colorful record.
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Xiaodong People (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
Blackwater using cache of AK-47s Joseph Neff Sentite questa. The private military company Blackwater has found an unusual way to skirt federal laws that prohibit private parties from buying automatic weapons. Blackwater bought 17 Romanian AK-47s and 17 Bushmasters, gave ownership of the guns to the Camden County sheriff and keeps most of the guns at Blackwater's armory in Moyock. Tiny Camden
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Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
Presidential Airways, a division of the private military company Blackwater Worldwide, is being sued for wrongful death by the families of three soldiers killed in a plane crash in Afghanistan. The company has asked the court to use Shari’a Islamic law to make a ruling on the lawsuit. Why would a right-wing Christian company like Blackwater want to do that? If the judge agrees, it would essentially...
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The War on Guns (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
The private military company Blackwater has found an unusual way to skirt federal laws that prohibit private parties from buying automatic weapons. Blackwater bought 17 Romanian AK-47s and 17 Bushmasters, gave ownership of the guns to the Camden County sheriff and keeps most of the guns at Blackwater's armory in Moyock. Hey, at least they fully wrote out "Yes" and "No" on the transfer documents, so...
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Truth Out (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
Rifles given to sheriff in deal that skirts law. The private military company Blackwater has found an unusual way to skirt federal laws that prohibit private parties from buying automatic weapons. Blackwater bought 17 Romanian AK-47s and 17 Bushmasters, gave ownership of the guns to the Camden County sheriff and keeps most of the guns at Blackwater's armory in Moyock. read more
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Rising Hegemon (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
Well, just when you think you may have just ONE day in life where your snark can outdo reality, you find out how absurd the world has been made. And not in a good way : The private military company Blackwater has cultivated a patriotic reputation, with its staff of retired military and former police officers, and the requirement that most of its workers swear an oath to support and defend the U.S....
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Hunt of the Sea Wolves (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
News Observer: The private military company Blackwater has cultivated a patriotic reputation, with its staff of retired military and former police officers, and the requirement that most of its workers swear an oath to support and defend the U.S. Constitution. Blackwater’s aviation wing recently filed a unique request in federal court, where the widows of three American [...]
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Democratic Underground (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
Source: [b]The News & Observer[/b] The private military company Blackwater has cultivated a patriotic reputation, with its staff of retired military and former police officers, and the requirement that most of its workers swear an oath to support and defend the U.S. Constitution. Blackwater's av...
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Cnet (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
iRobot has secured a multi-million dollar R&D contract for a new type of soft, flexible robot for the military, the company announced Tuesday. The "ChemBot" project was awarded to iRobot from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the U.S. Army Research Office . iRobot did not release ...
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Crave RSS (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
iRobot has secured a multimillion-dollar R&D contract for a new type of soft, flexible robot for the military, the company announced Tuesday. The "ChemBot" project was awarded to iRobot from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the U.S. Army Research Office. iRobot did not release any ...
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Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
Melbourne-based Harris Corp. has received a $118 million order from the U.S. Marine Corps for tactical combat radios -- the latest in its lucrative deal to provide advanced radio communications technology to the military, the company said Thursday. The new order will almost double the number of Harris' Falcon II radios the Marine Corps is acquiring as part of a $350 million program, according to the...
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Kotaku (Free subscription) | 05/20/2008
Ubisoft's Haze is a futuristic first person shooter from developers Free Radical Design. Set in 2048 and a war torn world in which private military company Mantel Global Industries acts as private...
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News: Moldova.org: Politics (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
The U.S. State Department has renewed a contract for the Blackwater private military company to protect American diplomats in Iraq, officials said.The company's contract renewal comes after an investigation into several of its guards suspected of taking part in a September shooting that killed 17 Iraqis in Baghdad, The New York Times reported Saturday.Investigations by the FBI, the State Department...
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Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 05/02/2008
Friday, May 2, 2008 : Just two months after local opposition thwarted its effort to build a massive outdoor training facility near San Diego, the private military company BlackwaterUSA is being accused of trying to secretly build a new one just blocks from the U.S.-Mexican border. Blackwater received approval for the 61,000 square-foot indoor facility in Otay Mesa, California by filing for permits...
