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Posts Tagged ‘Tehreek-e-Taleban Pakistan’

C.I.A. Agents Going Rogue: Is Erik Prince another Osama bin Ladin?

C.I.A. Agents Going Rogue: Is Erik Prince another Osama bin Ladin?

The Nation | By Jeremy Scahill | 4 December 2009 Is Erik Prince 'Graymailing' the US Government? The in-depth Vanity Fair profile of the infamous owner of Blackwater, Erik Prince, is remarkable on many levels--not least among them that Prince appeared to give the story's author, former CIA lawyer Adam Ciralsky, unprecedented access to [...]

CIA’s Christian-Jihadi: Erik Prince of Blackwater/Xe

CIA’s Christian-Jihadi: Erik Prince of Blackwater/Xe

Vanity Fair | By Adam Ciralsky | Issue of January 2010 Tycoon, Contractor, Soldier, Spy Erik Prince, recently outed as a participant in a C.I.A. assassination program, has gained notoriety as head of the military-contracting juggernaut Blackwater, a company dogged by a grand-jury investigation, bribery accusations, and the voluntary-manslaughter [...]

Amy Goodman’s Interview with Jeremy Scahill on his Blackwater/XE Exposé

Amy Goodman’s Interview with Jeremy Scahill on his Blackwater/XE Exposé

Blackwater’s Secret War in Pakistan: Jeremy Scahill Reveals Private Military Firm Operating in Pakistan Under Covert Assassination and Kidnapping Program In an explosive new article in The Nation magazine, investigative journalist and Democracy Now! correspondent Jeremy Scahill reveals the private military firm Blackwater is part of a covert [...]

Jeremy Scahill’s Exposé of Blackwater/Xe (Operating as “Total Intelligence Solutions”) in Pakistan

Jeremy Scahill’s Exposé of Blackwater/Xe (Operating as “Total Intelligence Solutions”) in Pakistan

Blackwater's Secret War in Pakistan By Jeremy Scahill | November 23, 2009 Operating out of a US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) base in Karachi, and reporting to a Task Force based at Bagram Air Base, Blackwater/Xe's "SELECT" Division, and its affiliate, "Total Intelligence Solutions", works with and for Kestral Logistics -- a [...]

U.S. Special Forces, and now Blackwater/XE, running top secret covert assassination and kidnapping operations in Pakistan since 2006

U.S. Special Forces, and now Blackwater/XE, running top secret covert assassination and kidnapping operations in Pakistan since 2006

US firm 'runs covert Pakistan ops' Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan blame Blackwater for at least two of the recent bombings (in Peshawar, and the NWFP), saying the Taliban attacks never aimed to target civilians and that the explosions were linked to Blackwater activities in the country. A new report has accused the US private security firm [...]