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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: Retired
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| ". But the Christian fundamentalist types talk about the military as if it's some sort of bastion of unadulterated moral purity, floating high above the heads of the decadent, porn-surfing hoi poloi. . |
SOME "Christian fundamentalists do. Not all. |
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mises
Joined: 05 Nov 2007
Location: retired
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Feds Indict Former Blackwater President, 4 Others
Ex-Blackwater president, 4 others indicted over weapons; feds cite gifts to king of Jordan
The former president of Blackwater Worldwide was charged Friday with using straw purchases to stockpile automatic weapons at the security firm and filing false documents to cover up gifts given to the king of Jordan.
Gary Jackson, 52, who left the company last year in a management shake-up, was charged along with four of his former colleagues, according to the federal indictment.
The prosecution opens a new front of the government's oversight of the sullied security company. Several of the company's contractors have previously been charged with federal crimes for their actions in war zones, but the company's executives have thus far weathered a range of investigations.
Blackwater has been trying to rehabilitate its image since a 2007 shooting in Baghdad that left 17 people dead, outraged the Iraqi government and led to a federal charges against several Blackwater guards � accusations later thrown out of court after a judge found prosecutors mishandled evidence. Around the time that Jackson left the company, Blackwater changed its name to Xe Services.
The charges against Jackson include a conspiracy to violate firearms laws, false statements, possession of a machine gun and possession of an unregistered firearm. Also indicted were former Blackwater general counsel Andrew Howell, 44; former executive vice president Bill Mathews, 44; former procurement vice president Ana Bundy, 45; and former weapons manager Ronald Slezak, 65. |
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=10397525
First Goldman and now Blackwater.. Good news. |
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Sleepy in Seoul
Joined: 15 May 2004
Location: Going in ever decreasing circles until I eventually disappear up my own fundament - in NZ
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| Why we pay a mercenary army to the job of Marines is beyond me. |
Obviously for the same reason as France has the Foreign Legion! |
It's not quite the same. The French Foreign Legion is a highly organised military group made up (mostly) of foreigners but commanded by French officers. Blackwater is a private organisation hired to do a job but with seemingly no military or governmental control over, or care about, how they do it. |
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