Balckwater's Eric Prince claims he worked for the CIA

This report suggests Prince was running the Executive Assassination Squads for former Vice President Dick Cheney.  Prince is no longer the CEO of Blackwater. The company has changed its name to Xe. Besides the shady activities of Blackwater, Prince and many of the Blackwater employees were evangelicals who viewed the Iraq War as a religious struggle between Muslims and Christians.

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US could replace XE (Blackwater) with Russian Oryol Security Teams

06 October, 2009, 19:50

This is a very good idea.  The CEO of XE (Blackwater), Erik Prince, may be sent to prison and he has recently resigned. The State Department has decided not to renew Blackwater/Xe's contract in Iraq when it expires in May, a State Department official told CNN in late January. The US could save money by hiring the Russian firm. Travel costs would also be reduced.

A group of former Russian soldiers is involved in an intense military training program in preparation for Iraq. They believe they can compete with their British and American counterparts by adopting a unique approach.

The training of the Oryol anti-terror centre may seem like an intense action scene from a Hollywood blockbuster movie, but in fact it is to prepare Russian men to work in Iraq…

“Before we send people there, we put them through some serious training. This includes psychological training and an educational program,” says Sergey Epishkin, head of Oryol anti-terror training centre. “In our classes, we even speak the way they speak in this particular region. If you can’t master local slang, you can run into a serious trouble sometimes.”

And to avoid such trouble is the chief responsibility of this group. These men are from the anti-terror group Oryol and, much like their infamous, American counterpart “Blackwater”, they provide private security for Russian engineers and businessmen operating inside Iraq.

“I firmly believe Russians can do a lot in the Middle East, much more than our American and British colleagues. Local people treat us much better – both police and the opposition. We are there with a peaceful mission. We help rebuild power plants,” says Sergey Epishkin.

The guys from Oryol go through highly-specialized training, under very tough conditions. They are true professionals, but to understand why these guys do what they do, one has to take a look at the individual men who do the job.

The company is entirely made up of ex-military officers who wanted an outlet to continue to use their skills.

“The potential of Russian special units is really unlimited. The reform [of the Russian military], with all its mistakes, left a good number of skilled professionals without a job,” Sergey Epishkin says.

And even though they have soldiers’ backgrounds, one of their main strategies is a unique form of diplomacy.

“We establish a good relationship not only with the Americans and the British, but with the Iraqi police and National Guard as well. To be frank with you, even with opposition forces. In such a region, it is important to find a common language with people,” explains Sergey.

The Oryol team considers their mission a peaceful one, making every attempt to restrain from using force, even under stressful conditions.

“It’s hard when you are driving, and you’re tense, and all of a sudden you see a boy running across the street ahead of you with a plastic bag. You can’t help it, you get scared. You don’t know if it’s just a boy or a terrorist,” says Oleg Maslov, a trainer from the Oryol Anti-Terror Training Centre.

“We don’t know what’s in his bag. That too is hard. The most important thing is not to panic, not to pull the trigger,” Maslov continued.

And though it is an emotionally taxing job, in many ways these guys are pioneers, paving the way for more Russian companies to help rebuild Iraq.

Source: http://www.russiatoday.com/Top_News/2009-10-06/russian-soldiers-blackwater-iraq.html#


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Blackwater (Xe) Contract Extended by the government

Private contractors have proven to be highly controversial in Iraq where the security firm formerly known as Blackwater has been banned.

But the US state department has extended a contract with the firm, now known as Xe, indefinitely, just as its contract was due to expire this month.

Iraqis had long complained about incidents involving Blackwater's ground operations, particularly when a shooting by Blackwater guards in Baghdad, the Iraqi capital, in September 2007, left 17 civilians dead.

The deaths further strained relations between Baghdad and Washington and led US prosecutors to bring charges against Blackwater and its founder, Erik Prince.
But sources say the department has agreed to temporarily continue using a subsidiary known as Presidential Airways to provide helicopter transport for embassy employees around Iraq.

Al Jazeera's Tom Ackerman reports.

source: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/09/200992185420888200.html


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CIA’s closet is opening on Blackwater Christo-supremacists

21 August, 2009, 22:37



"You are going to have a hurricane coming through Washington that is aimed right at the intelligence community," said former CIA director Porter Goss, as more details emerged of the CIA's activities during the Bush era.

Officials say that the CIA ran a program in which they hired employees of a firm formerly known as Blackwater and trained them for the purposes of capturing and killing Al Qaeda operatives.

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The CIA is not legally allowed to carry out assassinations. Allegedly this is something that the Bush administration tried to ignore and pawn off on the military contractors. 

Wayne Madsen, an investigative journalist and RT contributor, claims that Blackwater targeted Muslims and Arabs under the orders of the CIA.

“We know they have been active in Iraq, they’ve also been active in Afghanistan,” Madsen told RT. “We now have some Blackwater employees coming forward and saying, ‘Yes, people were targeted indiscriminately.’”

source: http://www.russiatoday.com/Top_News/2009-08-21/cias-closet-cleaned-skeletons.html#

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