CIA hires Xe, formerly Blackwater, to guard facilities in Afghanistan, elsewhere
The revelation comes only a day after members of a federal commission investigating war-zone contractors blasted the State Department for granting Xe a new $120 million contract to guard U.S. consulates under construction in Afghanistan.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/23/AR2010062305255_pf.html
'Private Security Firms Threaten Afghan Security'
In the report, the US Congress says that the US forces in Afghanistan can pay millions of dollars for security of their logistic convoys in a week, but the money flows to the Taliban's pocket as bribe.
http://quqnoos.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4499&Itemid=48
Britain will not defeat Taliban and should open talks, says head of Army
General Sir David Richards said he believed the time had come for negotiations with Nato's enemies to pave the way for the eventual withdrawal of troops.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25830.htm
From Information Clearing House
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Feds Won't Charge Blackwater in Sudan Sanctions Case
Warren P. Strobel, Jonathan S. Landay and Joseph Neff, McClatchy Newspapers: "The security contractor Blackwater Worldwide tried for two years to secure lucrative defense business in Southern Sudan while the country was under U.S. economic sanctions, according to current and former U.S. officials and hundreds of pages of documents reviewed by McClatchy.... The Obama administration, however, has decided for now not to bring criminal charges against Blackwater, according to a U.S. official close to the case."
http://www.truth-out.org/feds-wont-charge-blackwater-sudan-sanctions-case60832
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Central+Intelligence+Agency
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Blackwater
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=contractor
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=private+security+firm
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Taliban
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Warren+P.+Strobel
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Jonathan+S.+Landay
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/23/AR2010062305255_pf.html
'Private Security Firms Threaten Afghan Security'
In the report, the US Congress says that the US forces in Afghanistan can pay millions of dollars for security of their logistic convoys in a week, but the money flows to the Taliban's pocket as bribe.
http://quqnoos.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4499&Itemid=48
Britain will not defeat Taliban and should open talks, says head of Army
General Sir David Richards said he believed the time had come for negotiations with Nato's enemies to pave the way for the eventual withdrawal of troops.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25830.htm
From Information Clearing House
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Feds Won't Charge Blackwater in Sudan Sanctions Case
Warren P. Strobel, Jonathan S. Landay and Joseph Neff, McClatchy Newspapers: "The security contractor Blackwater Worldwide tried for two years to secure lucrative defense business in Southern Sudan while the country was under U.S. economic sanctions, according to current and former U.S. officials and hundreds of pages of documents reviewed by McClatchy.... The Obama administration, however, has decided for now not to bring criminal charges against Blackwater, according to a U.S. official close to the case."
http://www.truth-out.org/feds-wont-charge-blackwater-sudan-sanctions-case60832
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Central+Intelligence+Agency
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Blackwater
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=contractor
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=private+security+firm
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Taliban
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Warren+P.+Strobel
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Jonathan+S.+Landay
rudkla - 24. Jun, 23:04
