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C.I.A. Sought Blackwater’s Help in Plan to Kill Jihadists - NYTimes.com
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“It is too easy to contract out work that you don’t want to accept responsibility for,”
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Over the years, Blackwater has hired several former top C.I.A. officials, including Cofer Black, who ran the C.I.A. counterterrorism center immediately after the Sept. 11 attacks.
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US Blackwater-Xe mercenaries spreads fear in Pakistani town (Feature) - Monsters and Critics
U.S. Command Considering Private Security Contractors - washingtonpost.com
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The U.S. military command is considering contracting a private firm to manage security on the front lines of the war in Afghanistan, even as Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates says that the Pentagon intends to cut back on the use of private security contractors.
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On a Web site listing federal business opportunities, the Army this month published a notice soliciting information from prospective contractors who would develop a security plan for 50 or more forward operating bases and smaller command outposts across Afghanistan.
French agents kidnapped in Somalia - The Majlis
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As a side note, the French agents were reportedly calling themselves journalists as a cover identity, and were staying in the Funduq Sahafi al-'Aalmee, or the International Journalist Hotel. It's reassuring to see that intelligence agencies are still letting their agents pose as journalists, thus affirming the paranoid accusations of Third World governments everywhere.
Al Jazeera English - Middle East - US security firm banned from Iraq
Blackwater, a US private security firm, has been barred from providing security for US diplomats in Iraq for its involvement in the deaths of at least 17 civilians in 2007.
Blackwater guards charged in Iraq shooting
By James Vicini WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Five Blackwater security guards were charged on Monday with killing 14 unarmed civilians and wounding 20 others in a 2007 shooting in Baghdad that outraged Iraqis and strained U.S.-Iraqi relations. U.S....
Al Jazeera English - News - Israeli Faces Colombia Extradition
Russia is to extradite a former Israeli commando to Colombia where he was convicted in absentia of training paramilitary groups allied to drug cartels, a Moscow court has said.
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Foreigners held for Iraq shooting
A group of at least 32 foreigners have been detained in Baghdad after an Iraqi woman was shot and injured, say Iraqi government officials.
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