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thomasfortenberry.net (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Damn. There I was so happy. Media Goof Again: Blackwater Isn’t Going Anywhere I loved this Peace Warriors excerpt: ”The experience we’ve had would certainly be a disincentive to any other companies that want to step in and put their entire business at risk,” said Erik Prince, Blackwater’s reclusive, 39 year-old founder and owner. Company president Gary [...]
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Mercury Rising 鳯女 (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
The Guardian (via Truthout) reports that Blackwater, the notorious security firm founded by Bush crony and Dominionist Erik Prince, is getting out of the security biz. Mr. Prince is blaming the media for repeating all those nasty rumors about Blackwater employees gunning down Iraqi civilians and generally being all reckless with human lives. It’s ruined Blackwater’s [...]
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
BUILDING BLACKWATER: Former Navy SEAL Erik Prince founded Blackwater Worldwide with initial plans to provide training to law enforcement and military.
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
BUILDING BLACKWATER: Former Navy SEAL Erik Prince founded Blackwater Worldwide with initial plans to provide training to law enforcement and military.
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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
BUILDING BLACKWATER: Former Navy SEAL Erik Prince founded Blackwater Worldwide with initial plans to provide training to law enforcement and military. BREAD AND BUTTER: The company's biggest growth came as it made the transition from training to security...
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The Open Piehole (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Airmen might soon find Blackwater blimps patrolling Iraq and Afghanistan skies in addition to its helicopter and light transport aircraft already flying thousands of missions in theater. According to Blackwater Worldwide CEO Erik Prince, eight Blackwater CASA 212 light transport aircraft flew 11,000 sorties in Afghanistan last year supporting 38 combat outposts over 19,000 square miles. [...]
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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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The War on Guns (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
For Erik Prince and Niccolo Machiavelli have very different ideas on the subject of mercenaries. Not that Erik Prince would even embrace that term. His employees are called "private contractors" not mercenaries. This is true in the same sense that prostitutes are now called "sex workers" to avoid the stigma. Mike Vanderboegh examines our friends at Blackwater . After you've read it, I have a couple...
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Ooblog (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
At a time when I, like a lot of the country, was starting to suffer from outrage fatigue, it seems that today brought a higher-than-usual number of news stories in the “You’ve got to be fucking kidding me” department. One of Erik Prince’s companies (no, not Blackwater; another one) invokes Shari’a law when it’s convenient: RALEIGH - To defend itself against a [...]
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BlueNC - Comments (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
On May 19, 2008, Blackwater Worldwide’s founder Erik Prince spoke about his company at the Grand Rapids Economic Club luncheon. Highlighting the company’s positive contributions provided the speech’s subject. Prince established Blackwater Training facility, located on over 7,000 acres in Moyock, NC, after having to train at several small sites during his three years as a Navy SEAL. Betsy DeVos introduced...
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NewsObserver.com - Local & State (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
Erik Prince, owner of the company that has faced scathing criticism for its security work, and other Blackwater executives meet with N&O representatives to defend the company's reputation and counter the impression 'that we are unaccountable
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Voice of Mordor (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
Erik Prince (prince in name, not in nature), brother-in-law to the leaseholders of the Michigan Republican party, is fighting a lawsuit against his mercenary business in Afghanistan, brought by widows of three American soldiers who died when a plane owned by a sister corporation to Blackwater, Presidential Airways. The companies lawyers are arguing before a US federal court that Shari'a law
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Rants From The Rookery (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
And finding how amazingly interconnected Blackwater is: Erik Prince and Blackwater (North, USA, Worldwide, etc.) The Blackwater brass . The International Peace Operations Association which Blackwater left in 2007. Erik Prince's background . Some of the foundations he's connected to. Blackwater in Iraq. Blackwater subverting the voice of the people?: In January 2008, Marshall Adame , a Democrat running...
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Mosquito Blog (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
If you aren't alarmed by Blackwater, you should be. They have already been deployed within America, to wit, in New Orleans during Katrina. Hundreds of them were sent there by Erik Prince before a contract was even foramlly signed. By their own account, they killed American citizens in the Lower Ninth Ward, "black gang-bangers" one of them bragged to Jeremy Scahill, whose voice you will hear on this...
