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BREAKING NEWS: Blackwater Founder Implicated in Murder

Submitted by sharpsteve on Wed, 08/05/2009 - 08:43
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http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090817/scahill
By Jeremy Scahill | The Nation | August 4, 2009

Jeremy Scahill will be on Olbermann tonight, discussing the allegations against Erik Prince and Blackwater
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq6E0MIeGvQ

A former Blackwater employee and an ex-US Marine who has worked as a security operative for the company have made a series of explosive allegations in sworn statements filed on August 3 in federal court in Virginia. The two men claim that the company's owner, Erik Prince, may have murdered or facilitated the murder of individuals who were cooperating with federal authorities investigating the company. The former employee also alleges that Prince "views himself as a Christian crusader tasked with eliminating Muslims and the Islamic faith from the globe," and that Prince's companies "encouraged and rewarded the destruction of Iraqi life."

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FORMER EMPLOYEES OF BLACKWATER MAKE NEW ALLEGATIONS

Submitted by cooper11 on Fri, 08/14/2009 - 19:34.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ0RuxPQ30Q

Blackwater, a private military firm, contracted to provide security services for US officials in Iraq is no stranger to controversy. Recently two former employees have made allegations that the firm's owner Eric Prince was a crusader who "encouraged and rewarded" the destruction of Iraqi life.

A criminal case needs to be filed

Submitted by ptarantino on Thu, 08/06/2009 - 17:48.

against Prince, for the murder charges.

Awwwwww

Submitted by Dreamwhileyousleep on Thu, 08/06/2009 - 17:04.

Eric's done and started his own Iran-Contra.... isn't that precious.

Nothing shocking these days. I wonder when the nightly news will begin covering this little hitler?

Olbermann follow up interview

Submitted by cooper11 on Thu, 08/06/2009 - 16:48.

Keith Olbermann: Blackwater - Murder, Inc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW9g6ao1p9U&eurl=

Bump

Submitted by Liberty_Mike on Wed, 08/05/2009 - 21:56.

For more attention

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I second you bump

Submitted by riceowlex on Thu, 08/06/2009 - 09:55.

Apparently we as taxpayers are once again indirectly funding the wholesale murder of other people in other lands. Enough is enough. for the uninitiated the world's not revolving around you, your family, your new car or home...If we're not vigilant as citizens in prosecuting lawbreakers
then we lose the meaning of the laws and there is chaos. If you don't believe me in how bad things have gotten look at local law, how it's enforced and whether there are laws to fit the offence in your state.
99% chance you were sitting in jail, or cited for something that doesn't exist according to law.

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I am sure there is more to this story...

Submitted by legalizeliberty on Wed, 08/05/2009 - 13:07.

bump.

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Looks like this is a unique lawsuit, Iraqi's are

Submitted by ptarantino on Wed, 08/05/2009 - 12:04.

suing Blackwater for illegal deaths.

This one stinks to high heaven

Submitted by 4GodinVA on Wed, 08/05/2009 - 11:26.

Mercenaries with a conscience accusing other mercenaries of doing bad things???? Now I've heard everything!

I wonder if this is a ruse for the US to cleanse itself of Blackwater's heinous crimes and pin their evil on the Christians? The article states ...

"The former employee also alleges that Prince 'views himself as a Christian crusader tasked with eliminating Muslims and the Islamic faith from the globe,' and that Prince's companies 'encouraged and rewarded the destruction of Iraqi life.'"

Christians don't murder their enemies in cold blood, but Zionists do. Christians attempt to build hospitals and schools and orphanages, even when they go into hostile areas. Zionists do nothing of the sort ... they blow their enemies away or starve them to death, or bulldoze their homes, etc.

Notice they don't call him a "Christian Zionist," because that would be fingering their own useful idiots and getting way to close to the truth.

Well, Prince may well be a Christian Zionist (there's no dirth of those delusional boobs around), but that means he's a Christian in name only. What he truly is is a Zionist, taking orders from his masters, the Jewish Zionists. Their god is the devil!

I don't like the sound of this one bit! It really worries me. This could be the beginning of a good old fashioned persecution against Christians.

U.S.Cities Increasing Use of Armed Mercenaries to Replace Police

Submitted by Liberty_Belle on Wed, 08/05/2009 - 09:32.

PLEASE read this!

http://www.dailypaul.com/node/99609

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Mercenaries: How many In Iraq, How many In Afghanistan?

Submitted by blh9783 on Wed, 08/05/2009 - 09:22.

Why does the United States have Mercenaries? It has a military.
Do mercenaries operate under the same rules as the military?
Are mercenaries accountable or just out of control ?
How many mercenaries does the United States have?
How much do they get paid to kill and fight ?
Is this cost in the United States Budget ?
How many mercenaries does the United States have in Iraq?
How many mercenaries does the United States have in Afghanistan?
Why does the United States have Mercenaries?
Why does the United States have Mercenaries?

Over 250,000

Submitted by Dreamwhileyousleep on Wed, 08/05/2009 - 11:42.

mercenaries employed in the mid-east conflict from what I've read. Soon to be more at home unless people wake up to what is going on.

Mercenaries and War Profiteers ~please watch!

Submitted by Liberty_Belle on Wed, 08/05/2009 - 09:28.

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This video was banned from Congress seeing it!! Must see!!

http://www.wimp.com/videobanned/

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A mercenary MAY have killed someone?

Submitted by none on Wed, 08/05/2009 - 07:50.

C'mon, you have to be joking.

/end sarcasm

FOX hasn't touched this story

Submitted by ptarantino on Wed, 08/05/2009 - 07:18.

What a joke. There broadcasting license should be pulled.

Again, I'd really like to hear Dr,Paul's take, especially since over $1 Billion taxpayers dollars funded these creeps.

Thank you so much ...

Submitted by 4GodinVA on Wed, 08/05/2009 - 11:40.

It's exactly what I assumed, but you provided the details.

http://judicial-inc.biz/10_2_blackwater_prince.htm

Interesting stuff

Submitted by Dreamwhileyousleep on Wed, 08/05/2009 - 04:40.

on blackwater you've got there. Of course, it's only coincidence he's a filthy rich country club twat with a grossly exaggerated sense of self righteousness. I wonder how highly he was regarded in the Wingbat Christian terrorist circle jerks.

Aint war grand??

Submitted by P. Nicholson on Wed, 08/05/2009 - 02:27.

Frankly, who cares if he murdered them. How many innocent lives have been lost period. It is incredibly sad that America has fallen this far. No rights, an endless war killing people on both sides, bleeding us financially dry and government power in every aspect of our lives.

We did not have to go to war. We shouldnt have gone to war. We need to fire every single person that voted for this war...This is just another by-product of war. Give people absolute power and it corrupts them absolutely.

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Should care if he murdered

Submitted by SirThinksAlot on Wed, 08/05/2009 - 06:26.

Should care if he murdered person(s) willing to come forward and lay their careers, much less their lives, on the line to witness against potential abuses by their employer. Just maybe what was expected of them in the field didn't exactly fit the diplomat protection job description they signed on the dotted line for.

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Submitted by Fountainhead on Wed, 08/05/2009 - 01:24.

Erik Prince used all his fathers money and political connections to turn Blackwater into the murdering Thug inc it is. His dad Edgar is a legend in Holland, Mich turning his auto parts supplier company into a monumental success before dropping dead of a heart attack in the elevator of his executive office building. The company was bought out by Johnson Controls just in time for Erik now a Navy Seal and up to his neck in military black ops to play killer for hire for the neocons. It is no secret Blackwater did some evil things in New Orleans after hurricane Katrina and one can only imagine what they have done overseas or are prepared to do here again.

I live on the gulfcoast..

Submitted by P. Nicholson on Wed, 08/05/2009 - 02:31.

Im not one to listen to rumors, lets just say some of the more wanted people in New Orleans didnt have an easy ride when they stayed behind... People dont shoot at cops without motivation, or do they?

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Nothing new

Submitted by Rebel on Wed, 08/05/2009 - 00:37.

Blackwater has been exposed over and over as murdering outofcontrol death squads paid for with your tax dollars.
Do you really think anything will change?

thanks for posting

Submitted by TomJefferson on Wed, 08/05/2009 - 00:29.

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Dark ages all over again in so many ways

Submitted by Victoria on Wed, 08/05/2009 - 00:08.

When are we going to get out of these quagmires these criminal do-do birds have concocted?

Why is Olberman only implicating Bush and Co. and not asking why the current administration is continuing and escalating all the Bush legacies?

Why is this case brought out now? Is Obama switching killing contractors?

Obama's Blackwater?

Submitted by sharpsteve on Wed, 08/05/2009 - 00:22.

Obama's Blackwater? Chicago Mercenary Firm Gets Millions for Private "Security" in Israel and Iraq
http://www.alternet.org/world/134594/obama%27s_blackwater_ch...
By Jeremy Scahill
On the campaign trail, Barack Obama's advisers said he "can't rule out [and] won't rule out" using mercenary forces, like Blackwater. Now, it appears that the Obama administration has decided on its hired guns of choice: Triple Canopy, a Chicago company now based in Virginia. It may not have Blackwater's thuggish reputation, but Triple Canopy has its own bloody history in Iraq and a record of hiring mercenaries from countries with atrocious human rights records. What's more, Obama is not just using the company in Iraq, but also as a U.S.-government funded private security force in Israel/Palestine, operating out of Jerusalem.
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with atrocious human rights records?

Submitted by TomJefferson on Wed, 08/05/2009 - 00:32.

Why doesn't he just hire a firm from China?

Scary...if they don't stop the senseless killing, we may see more burnt bodies swinging from bridges again like they did to BW in the Middle East.

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Where's Jack Bauer?

Submitted by Robertolibre on Tue, 08/04/2009 - 23:44.

Life imitating art.

MODS! Updated with Video link

Submitted by sharpsteve on Tue, 08/04/2009 - 23:01.

If the youtube link could be embeded that would be great. Thanks
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Humpty Dumpty is falling off the wall! And ...

Submitted by yogmama on Tue, 08/04/2009 - 22:31.

all the king's men will never be able to put him back together again if they can prove this!! Let them all fall! Looks like "XE" jig is up!!!