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Blackwater USA
Type Corporation
Industry Private Military Contractor
Created by kayobee

  
Blackwater USA's Friends
Alexander Strategy Group
Blackwater is a client of ASG

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Hurricane Katrina
Homeland Security deployed "heavily armed paramilitary mercenaries from the Blackwater private security firm, infamous for their work in Iraq, to openly patrol New Orleans,"


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Department of Homeland Security
Blackwater's government contracts, obtained by The Nation, from September 8 to September 30, 2005, Blackwater was paid $409,000 for providing fourteen guards and four vehicles to "protect the tempora...


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Paul Bremer
Blackwater had the contract to guard Ambassador Paul Bremer when he was head of the US occupation of Iraq. We have troops why?


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George W. Bush
While companies like Halliburton may have raked in more profits since George W. Bush took office, few have seen growth as dramatic as Blackwater's.


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Focus on the Family
Blackwater founder Erik Prince and his father, Edgar, helped Gary Bauer start the Family Research Council. Late 1980s the group officially became a division of Dobson's main organization Focus on th...


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Cofer Black
Vice Chairman


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Augusto Pinochet
Blackwater is rapidly expanding its operations, creating a new surveillance-blimp division, launching new training facilities in California and the Philippines, and increasingly setting its sights on...


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Operation Iraqi Freedom
According to the Government Accountability Office, 48,000 employees of private mercenary firms are operating in Iraq alone. Those are the ones that are being tracked, and the tracking is very loose. ...


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Family Research Council
Blackwater founder, Erik Prince's family helped James Dobson found Focus on the Family. Erik Prince's family gave the seed money for Gary Bauer to found the Family Research Council. Erik Prince himse...


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James Dobson
Blackwater founder, Erik Prince's family helped James Dobson found Focus on the Family. Erik Prince's family gave the seed money for Gary Bauer to found the Family Research Council. Erik Prince himse...


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The United States Department of Justice
FBI and the U.S. attorneys in the United States are responsible for prosecuting contractor crimes committed in Iraq or Afghanistan. With 100,000 contractors running around Iraq, what prosecutor from ...


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Donald Rumsfeld
Donald Rumsfeld, in one of his first major addresses, on September 10, 2001, stood before the gaggle of former corporate CEOs and executives that would make up the core of the civilian leadership of ...


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911
The day after he announced that initiative, of course, the 9/11 attacks happened. That gave the Administration a blank slate on which to paint its radical overhaul of how the United States wages its ...


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Hassan Jaber
The State Department and the company in question, Blackwater USA, have said the incident began when a diplomatic convoy came under attack in Baghdad; Iraqi witnesses and officials have said the secur...


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Nuri al-Maliki
Sept. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki called on the U.S. to replace Blackwater, the security company that protects State Department staff in Iraq, after the firm was involved in...


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Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA),
CPA Order NUMBER 17 (REVISED), revised by Bremmer on his last day to grant immunity from trial for Blackwater contractors operating in Iraq.


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Michigan
Blackwater founder and owner is Erik Prince. His sister is Betsy DeVos, a former chairman of the Republican Party of Michigan.


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Republican Party
Blackwater founder and owner is Erik Prince. His sister is Betsy DeVos, a former chairman of the Republican Party of Michigan.


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Chile
Blackwater and other mercenary companies brought over 750 Chilean mercenaries to operate in Iraq. Some of them had trained and served under the brutal regime of Augusto Pinochet, which I document in ...


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U.S. State Department
The vast majority of Blackwater's contracts in Iraq are not with the Pentagon. They're actually with the U.S. State Department. Blackwater is guarding not just the U.S. ambassador, and the various U....


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Erik Prince
Blackwater founder, Erik Prince is a multi-millionaire right-wing fundamentalist Christian from a powerful Michigan Republican family.


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Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation
Blackwater founder Eric Prince's sister is the DeVos' daughter in law, married to the son of Amway founders DeVos.


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Baghdad's bloody Sunday
Witnesses described a horrifying scene of indiscriminate shooting by the Blackwater guards. In all, as many as twenty-eight Iraqis may have been killed, and doctors say the toll could climb, as some ...


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Buzzy (A.B.) Krongard
Waxman cited a July e-mail message from Krongard in which he ordered his staff to "stop IMMEDIATELY" cooperating with the federal prosecutor investigating Blackwater until Krongard himself could spea...


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Henry Waxman
Waxman said he was particularly concerned to learn the State Department advised the company on how much to pay the family of an Iraqi security guard shot by a drunken Blackwater employee in 2006. Int...


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Burson-Marsteller
Blackwater’s CEO, Eric Prince, hired Burson’s lobbying subsidiary, BKSH, to prep him for his Congressional testimony — helping him to glibly explain why the civilian cowboys who work for him have bee...


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Joseph Schmitz
Schmitz is going to be the chief operating officer and general counsel for the Prince Group, according to another defense official who discussed the matter only on condition of anonymity. One of Prin...


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Howard J. Krongard
Asked if Blackwater knew who his brother was when Erik Prince offered him a position on the advisory board, Buzzy replies, "You think I had to tell them? That they didn't know?" He says it shouldn't ...


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Crimes and Lawbreakers
Much of the attention focuses on the now infamous shooting spree in Baghdad's Nisour Square on September 16, in which seventeen Iraqi civilians were killed and twenty-four wounded. FBI investigators ...


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Round Up Ready Nation
Domain Name blackwaterusa.com ? (Commercial) IP Address 208.34.235.# (NEUSE REGIONAL LIBRARY) ISP Sprint


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Compass Group plc
It has been contended that the contract between ESS and Blackwater, through an intermediary called Regency Hotels, was known to Halliburton and therefore violated Halliburton's contract with the U.S...


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Presidential Airways
Erik Prince, who owns Blackwater and Presidential Airways, briefly discussed the lawsuit in a meeting today with editors and reporters at The News & Observer.


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Florida
Presidential Airways, Inc. is a sister company to Aviation Worldwide Services, LLC (AWS), both of which are owned by Blackwater USA, Melbourne, FL.


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Mark Penn
Burson-Marsteller has been representing Blackwater USA following a September 16 incident in which the company killed 17 Iraqi civilians, according to the Iraqi government's investigation.


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Dick DeVos
Dick DeVos founder and CEO of Amway is the Brother in law of Erik Prince CEO of Blackwater.


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Council for National Policy
The family of Erik Prince, founder of the controversial private security company Blackwater Worldwide, has also been closely associated with the council. Erik’s father Edgar Prince was a longtime boa...


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EP Investments LLC
One of dozens of corporate entities that are owned by and operate for Blackwater.


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CIA
August 30, 2009 - By Jeremy Scahill Some parts of Blackwater’s clandestine work for the CIA have begun to leak out from behind the iron curtain of secrecy. The company’s role in the secret assassi...


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Al Clark
co-founder, (with Erik Prince); and former principal.


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Afghanistan
These operations are being executed from hidden basis inside Pakistan and Afghanistan where Blackwater’s contractors gather and load Hellfire missiles and 500-pound laser-guided bombs on remotely ope...


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Al Qaeda
According to a New York Times report, the Blackwater private security firm (now known as Xe) has taken up a role in America’s most important and contentious counterterrorism program: the use of unman...


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Xe Services LLC
Xe Services LLC (pronounced ˈzi"), still usually referred to as "Blackwater", is a private military company founded as Blackwater USA in 1997 by Erik Prince and Al Clark. At least 90 percent of...


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Nevada
Blackwater operatives assigned to the Predator bases are trained at the Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada. They are taught how to load Hellfire missiles and laser-guided smart bombs on the drones, curr...


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