Black Water Security Company

"US refuses to discuss Blackwater mission in Pakistan
PakTribune.com
ISLAMABAD: While in Pakistan there are growing reports of the presence of Blackwater personnel, at home in America the US security agency's founder and ...

CIA interrogations and the Blackwater affair
Economist
On August 28th a federal judge will consider a suit charging Blackwater, a security contractor, with war crimes. Mr Holder's announcement may even herald a ...

Blackwater Used by the CIA in Assassination Program
E.I.R.: Letzte Meldungen
According to Time columnist Robert Baer, Blackwater is now supervised in Afghanistan by is a British security company called Aegis, "which is headed by a ...



Blackwater Accused of Creating 'Killing Program'
Spiegel Online
A memo obtained by SPIEGEL indicates that cooperation between the CIA and private security firm Blackwater was deeper than previously known




Blackwater should be blacklisted
Tehran Times - Linda S. Heard
In 2007, Prince was called before Congress to be questioned on circumstances surrounding the killing of 17 Iraqi civilians by a Blackwater security detail. ...


Iraqis seek justice against Blackwater boss accused of 'crusade to ...
Daily Mail
He founded private security firm Blackwater USA in 1997 and formed Blackwater Security Consulting in 2002, obtaining government contracts to protect US ...
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this was a brief overview of the news rotating about black water security company in media in the past ten days
well now see what is is this black water.
we re going to give you brief introductioin of this black water.
The company announced on February 13, 2009, that it would operate under the new name "Xe". In a memo sent to employees, President Gary Jackson wrote that the new name "reflects the change in company focus away from the business of providing private security." A spokesman for the company stated that it feels the Blackwater name is too closely associated with the company's work in Iraq.Spokeswoman Anne Tyrrell said there was no meaning in the new name, which the company spent over a year to arrive at in an internal search

Xe is currently the largest of the U.S. State Department's three private security contractors. Of the 987 contractors Xe provides, 744 are U.S. citizens.At least 90 percent of the company's revenue comes from government contracts, of which two-thirds are no-bid contracts. Xe provided security services in Iraq to the United States federal government, particularly the Department of State on a contractual basis. They no longer have a license to operate in Iraq: the new Iraqi government made multiple attempts to expel them from their country, and denied their application for an operating license in January 2009.However, the company is still under contract with the State Department and some Xe personnel will likely remain in Iraq at least until September 2009.
Accusations of Crusader Ideology


In early August 2009, sworn affidavits lodged at a Virginia court in the USA contained various allegations including murder, weapons smuggling, and the deliberate slaughter of civilians against Blackwater, with claims that founder Erik Prince had organised the murder of former employees co-operating with US federal investigators.In one of the affidavits a former employee who served for 4 years in Blackwater and was a former US marine, alleged that Mr Prince;

“views himself as a Christian crusader tasked with eliminating Muslims and the Islamic faith from the globe...To that end, Mr. Prince intentionally deployed to Iraq certain men who shared his vision of Christian supremacy, knowing and wanting these men to take every available opportunity to murder Iraqis. Many of these men used call signs based on the Knights of the Templar, the warriors who fought the Crusades”.

It was also claimed that Mr Prince and other executives destroyed incriminating videos, e-mails and documents to prevent the US State Department obtaining them. In a statement to CNN, the company said

“It is obvious that plaintiffs have chosen to slander Mr Prince rather than raise legal arguments or actual facts that will be considered by a court of law. We are happy to engage them there.“We question the judgment of anyone who relies upon and anonymous declarations.”


Christian Right Ideology

A book on Blackwater by Jeremy Scahill, claims that the leadership of Blackwater was driven by a Christian agenda deployed by, ‘extreme religious zealots’. Scahill suggests that its COO, former Pentagon Inspector General Joseph Schmitz, is a vociferous preacher on behalf of a crusading ideology, his recurrent theme being ‘the rule of law under God.’ America’s role in the world is to bring God’s law to all humanity, in what Scahill terms a vision of ‘Christian Supremacy’.

In Scahill’s account, Erik Prince, Blackwater's founder and chairman, with his connections to right-wing Catholic groups, believes that Blackwater is an important vehicle for ensuring the central role of Christianity in US foreign policy. However, according to Newsweek Prince plays down any connection between his religion and his business.

"Look," he says, "I'm a practicing Roman Catholic, but you don't have to be Catholic, you don't have to be a Christian to work for Blackwater."
Blackwater and allegations of links to the Christian right

Allergations links to Catholic Sovereign Military Order of Malta

Links between Blackwater and the Order of Malta have come under scrutiny. The Chief Operating Officer of the Prince Group, Joseph Schmitz, is an honorary member of the group the Knights of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, considered to be the main successor to the crusader Knights Hospitaller, a Catholic military order, and now a voluntary disaster relief, aid and medical organization. Although the Order does not rule Malta, its name and historic origins as an eleventh century crusader order has caused critics posit that Blackwater is itself a religious crusader organization, or is secretly run by the Knights of Malta. This linkage is, in the words of Malta Today, "the latest conspiracy theory".Jordanian Member of Parliament Jamal Muhammad Abidat wrote in the Abu Dhabi daily newspaper Al-Bayan that:

The painful saga of modern Arab-Muslim history evokes the battles fought in the Crusades of the 11th century, when the Knights of Malta began their operations as a Christian militia whose mission it was to defend the land conquered by the Crusaders. These memories return violently to mind with the discovery of links between the so-called security firms in Iraq such as Blackwater have historic links with the Knights of Malta. You cannot exaggerate it. The Order of Malta is a hidden government, or the most mysterious government in the world.

Following this editorial by Abidat a call was issued on Jihadist websites close to Al-Qaida. It urged readers to attack on the Order’s embassy in the Cairo, Egypt. No such attack materialised.

The grandmaster of the order, Brother Andrew Bertie, has decried the accusation:

“new conspiracy theories which have sprung up, over recent months, in various television channels and newspapers in friendly countries, but associating the sovereign Order of Malta with a private society of mercenaries, which it is said are operating in Iraq and Afghanistan for a foreign government. These assertions have absolutely no factual basis,”

He further stated that these accusations put “the lives of volunteers offering humanitarian assistance in grave danger”.

The European Parliament published a report by legislator Giovanni Claudio Fava, detailing connections between Blackwater and Malta. The Fava’s inquiry was the triggered by the revelation that two Blackwater subsidiaries had been involved in US special rendition flights. Fava indicated that the island Republic of Malta is one of Blackwater’s primary operational bases. Blackwater's vice-president, Cofer Black, had been the CIA officer responsible for special renditions of detainees to pro-Western regimes.According to the newspaper Malta Today; Blackwater strenously disputes the European Parliament committee’s report; labelling the assertions as “erroneous and undocumented”, and called on the committee to re-examine its findings, saying it was “alarmed by these statements, because they are completely false and defamatory”.
Blackwater Worldwide was employed to assist the Hurricane Katrina relief efforts on the Gulf Coast. According to a company press release, it provided airlift, security, logistics, and transportation services, as well as humanitarian support. It was reported that the company also acted as law enforcement in the disaster-stricken areas, for example securing neighborhoods and confronting criminals. Blackwater moved about 200 personnel into the area hit by Hurricane Katrina, most of whom (164 employees) were working under a contract with the Department of Homeland Security to protect government facilities, but the company held contracts with private clients as well. Overall, Blackwater had a "visible, and financially lucrative, presence in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina as the use of the company contractors cost U.S. taxpayers $240,000 a day."There has been much dispute surrounding governmental contracts in post-Katrina New Orleans, especially no-bid contracts such as the one Xe was awarded. Xe's heavily-armed presence in the city was also the subject of much confusion and criticism.

Xe is one of five companies picked by the Department of Defense Counter-Narcotics Technology Program Office in a five-year contract for equipment, material and services in support of counter-narcotics activities. The contract is worth up to $15 billion. The other companies picked are Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Arinc Inc. Blackwater USA has also been contracted by various foreign governments. The DEA and DoD counternarcotics program is supported by Blackwater Worldwide in Afghanistan as well.“Blackwater is involved on DoD side” of the counter-narcotics program in Afghanistan says Jeff Gibson, vice president for international training at Blackwater. “We interdict. The NIU surgically goes after shipments going to Iran or Pakistan. We provide training to set up roadblocks, identify where drug lords are, and act so as not to impact the community.”About 16 Blackwater personnel are in Afghanistan at any given time to support DoD and DEA efforts at training facilities around the country. Blackwater is also involved in mentoring Afghan officials in drug interdiction and counter narcotics.As Richard Douglas, a deputy assistant secretary of defense, explained, "The fact is, we use Blackwater to do a lot of our training of counternarcotics police in Afghanistan. I have to say that Blackwater has done a very good job."

In 2005, it worked to train the Naval Sea Commando regiment of Azerbaijan, enhancing their interdiction capabilities on the Caspian Sea.In Asia, Blackwater has contracts in Japan guarding AN/TPY-2 radar systems.
now after telling you all this.i ask only one question from the world?that if a Muslim gets military training for self defense ,he is not allowed to do it.then why a private company who is already accused of having extremist thinking and claiming to be crusaders,why????
WHY IS THIS DOUBLE CRITERIA???
if a muslim organization had so much resources.american allieds must have attacked the country in which such organization was working.
i think are resources of black water are much more then al-qaeda and may be they have killed more people in Iraq and Afghanistan then al-qaeda.but i know no body's gonna speak against it.nobody....alas!!!!