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Xe Blog: Raymond Davis Is CIA Contractor, U.S. Officials Say
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Wednesday, February 23, 2011. Raymond Davis Is CIA Contractor, U.S. Officials Say. Feb 21, 2011. Davis and a group of fellow security officers lived in a safehouse in Lahore. The CIA keeps safehouses for security personnel in an effort to limit the ability for militants to track their movements, the intelligence contractor said. On Jan. 27, Davis left the safehouse and conducted an "area familiarization route," according to the senior U.S. official. He drove through various Lahore neighbo...Davis has tol...
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Xe Blog: June 2010
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Wednesday, June 30, 2010. BLACKWATER, US MILITARY WORKING FOR TALIBAN DRUG LORDS. Sunday, 27 June 2010 10:20. According to The Daily Mail’s investigations, Maulvi Fazaluallah is spotted residing in Kamdesh district of Nooristan along with 300 militants and other middle level Commanders. These finding also disclose that Maulvi Fazlullah had remained under treatment in a medical facility under US troops in Bagram airbase before he returned to Kamdesh district. From Sabrina Elkhani and Steve Nelson. General...
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Xe Blog: August 2010
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Monday, August 30, 2010. Blackwater Provided 'Unauthorized' Training in Colombia. Posted by Erin Rosa - August 24, 2010 at 8:10 pm. US State Department Claims Blackwater Corporation Gave Military Training in Colombia Without Agency's Permission. According to the findings, Blackwater (which changed its name to Xe Services in 2009 after earning an ugly reputation for its mercenary work in Iraq) provided “military training to foreign persons from Colombia” before “obtaining required author...The company fai...
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Xe Blog: The Cost Risk of Privatizing War
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Sunday, March 6, 2011. The Cost Risk of Privatizing War. March 5, 2011. The Commission’s conservative estimate is that since October 2001 at least $177 billion has been spent on private contracts and grants to support U.S. operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. This is equivalent to $407,000,000 per Congressional district or $1,505 per U.S. household. Of that misspent amounts run in the tens of billions. The Commission conducted more than 900 meetings and briefings, along with a series of trips to Afghani...
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Xe Blog: How many Davis-type agents are in Pakistan?
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Friday, February 25, 2011. How many Davis-type agents are in Pakistan? ISLAMABAD: The Pakistani authorities are trying to figure out the exact number and locations of other Raymond Davis type CIA and Blackwater agents whose main focus, it is feared, is Pakistan’s nuclear programme. In 2009, three Americans along with a Pakistani had tried to trespass into the restricted area of Kahuta but the official security agency deployed at the check post got alerted and intercepted them when they crossed the check ...
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Xe Blog: Pakistan Trial of CIA Operative Adjourns
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Sunday, February 27, 2011. Pakistan Trial of CIA Operative Adjourns. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). There was an error in this gadget. If the eye offend thee, . . . Pakistan Trial of CIA Operative Adjourns. Gadhafi getting help from mercenaries. How many Davis-type agents are in Pakistan? Growing Anger in Pakistan Over US CIA/Blackwater K. Raymond Davis Is CIA Contractor, U.S. Officials Sa. 5,500 Mercs to Protect U.S. Fortresses in Iraq. Who is Raymond Davis? View my complete profile.
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Xe Blog: May 2010
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Wednesday, May 26, 2010. Pentagon Seeks Private Contractor to Move Weapons Through Pakistan/Afghanistan. Jeremy Scahill May 25, 2010. Many of these shipments will come into Pakistan through the Ports of Karachi and Qasim and the military lists the following as potential additional areas through which shipments would pass:. In Pakistan: Quetta, Peshawar, Torkham, and Chaman. In Afghanistan: Torkham, Chaman, Hairaton, Kabul (Supreme / Camp Phoenix / Afghan National Army-Afghan National Police Depots, Jalal...
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Xe Blog: July 2010
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010. By Jody Ray Bennett for ISN Security Watch. While the specific reason for the decision to sell has not been given, founder, owner and former CEO Erik Prince said in an interview with the Associated Press that “Performance doesn't matter in Washington, just politics,” and cited the constant criticism of the company as one factor that moved him to the decision. All 'merc'-andise must go! A former Blackwater executive told ISN Security Watch that Total Intelligence Solutions was R...
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Xe Blog: October 2010
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Saturday, October 30, 2010. NOW IN CONTROL - THE INDEPENDENT PRIVATE CONTRACTOR MILITARY. By Marti Hiken and Luke Hiken. As law professor Steven Schooner was asked in an interview, “Is there any danger of the military becoming overly dependent on the private sector? There is no way of knowing the total count of all private contractors. The estimate in June of this year is that there are around 200,000 service members in both Iraq and Afghanistan.[3]. There were over 200,000 DOD private contractors alone ...
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Xe Blog: January 2011
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Monday, January 17, 2011. Mystery Merc Group Is Blackwater’s 34th Front Company. If International Development Solutions, a mysterious firm partially owned by Blackwater, has its own independent office, it’s hard to find. A business records search co-locates one of the jackpot winners of a State Department contract worth up to $10 million with Kaseman LLC, the well-connected private security security firm that partnered with Blackwater arm U.S. Training Center to win the contract. Blackwater has a lot it ...
