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Blackwater, the controversial US private security company, has flagged its intent to resume business, taking out a full-page commercial in the latest edition of Recoil magazine with a chilling message declaring “We are coming” The resurrection within the military contractors’ market of notorious Blackwater, which, after numerous scandals and several rebrandings, is now known as […]
REUTERS/Larry Downing WASHINGTON (AP) — Blackwater Worldwide founder Erik Prince is considering a Republican primary challenge to Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso, a senior member of the Senate Republican leadership team. A person familiar with Prince’s thinking says he was in Wyoming this weekend to discuss a possible Senate campaign with family members. Prince has been […]
The White House has reviewed a proposal to outsource the job of training and assisting Afghan forces to private contractors, said Erik Prince, founder of the private security firm formerly called Blackwater. In several recent op-eds, the Blackwater founder suggested “restructuring” America’s presence in Afghanistan by replacing US troops training and assisting Afghan security units with […]
Victims and relatives of those slain or injured in the mass 2007 killing of unarmed Iraqi civilians by Blackwater contractors in Baghdad told RT they are outraged by the recent overturning of a murder conviction by a US court for the chief perpetrator. Read more Last week, the US Court of Appeals in the DC […]
An appeals court vacated the first-degree murder conviction of a Blackwater guard and ordered a new trial on Friday. Nicholas Slatten was charged with being involved in the 2007 incident where private security contractors working for the US government opened fire in Baghdad and left more than a dozen Iraqi civilians dead and others wounded. […]
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has dismissed a Washington Post report claiming that the Blackwater founder held a secret meeting to establish a backchannel for communications between Moscow and Donald Trump’s administration. “This is complete nonsense,” Peskov said on Tuesday after posed with a question by a reporter. Earlier Monday, the Washington Post reported, citing unnamed […]
