It looks like Blackwater has its candidate: Private security guards for Alaska U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller arrested the editor of the Alaska Dispatch at a public event on Sunday-that is, until the real police came and told Miller’s guards they had…
Afghanistan has banned eight private security firms, including the company formerly known as Blackwater, a spokesman for President Hamid Karzai told reporters Sunday.
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Afghanistan bans 8 security firms
Hillary Clinton’s pledge to blacklist Blackwater from federal contracts appears to have not been in earnest: The company has won a piece of a five-year State Department contract worth up to $10 billion, according to Wired. Eight companies won the…
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Blackwater Wins Federal Contract
Private defence company Blackwater, now known as XE Services, is fined $42m for violating US export and arms traffic laws.
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Private defence firm fined $42m
Xe, the private security firm once known as Blackwater, has reached a settlement with the State Department over alleged export violations that allows it to continue to get government contracts, a State Department official said.
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Settlement allows Xe to still get U.S. contracts
Two former employees of a security company owned by the US firm formerly known as Blackwater plead not guilty to killing two Afghans in 2009.
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Not guilty plea over Kabul deaths
