Jeremy Scahill
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- Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
- Jeremy Scahill Biography - Jeremy Scahill Bio
- Jeremy Scahill Books - Jeremy Scahill Novels
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- The LatestNews on Jeremy Scahill
- Jeremy Scahill Videos
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- Mercenary Army Jobs
- Blackwater - The Organization
- Eric Prince - Founder of Blackwater
- Al Clark - Founder of Blackwater
Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
udio Book by Jeremy Scahill - Narrated by Tom Weiner
A largely untold facet of the war on terror is the widespread outsourcing of military tasks to private mercenary companies. Accountable neither to the citizenry nor to standard military legal codes, these largely unregulated corporate armies are being entrusted with ever-greater responsibilities on behalf of the nation.Meet Blackwater USA, the world's most secretive, powerful, and fastest growing private army on the planet. Founded by fundamentalist Christian mega-millionaire Erik Prince, the scion of a conservative dynasty that bankrolls extreme-right-wing causes, this company of soldiers is now being sent "to the front lines of a global battle, waged largely on Muslim lands, that an evangelical President whom Prince helped put in the White House has boldly defined as a 'crusade'."
Ranging from the blood-soaked streets of Fallujah to Washington, D.C., where they are hailed as heroes, this is the dark story of Blackwater's rise to power.
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Category: File - :Jeremyscahilllecture.jpg|thumb|right|270px|Jeremy Scahill giving a lecture at Sacramento City College on May 3, 2007
Jeremy Scahill (born c. 1974) is an investigative journalist and author from the United States whose work focuses on global issues, most notably the use of private military companies. He is the author of the best-selling book Blackwater:The Rise of the Worlds Most Powerful Mercenary Army, winner of a George Polk Book Award. He also serves as a correspondent for the U.S. radio and TV program Democracy Now!. He is also a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute and a frequent contributor to The Nation.[http://www.thenation.com/directory/bios/jeremy_scahill The Nation'' website]
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Blackwater - The Organization
Xe Services LLC (), still usually referred to as "Blackwater", is a private military company founded as Blackwater USA in 1997 by Erik Prince and Al Clark. In October 2007, the company was renamed Blackwater Worldwide. Blackwater has a wide array of business divisions, subsidiaries, and spin-off corporations but the organization as a whole has courted much controversy.Sunday Herald, Scotland, [http://www.sundayherald.com/news/heraldnews/display.var.1724225.0.0.php "BACK IN IRAQ: THE 'WHORES OF WAR'"], October 2, 2007.Jeremey Scahill, The Nation, "Will Blackwater Be Kicked Out of Iraq After Recent Bloodbath?", September 28, 2007.David Swanson, Scoop New Zealand, "Observing Our Government Through Blackwater", September 29, 2007.Ian Bruce, The Herald, London, [http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/display.var.1720705.0.0.php "Blackwater uses armed force 'twice as often as other Iraq firms'"], September 28, 2007.Tehran Times, "Blackwater admits employees illegally sold weapons", September 23, 2007.
Based in North Carolina, Xe operates a tactical training facility () which the company claims is the world's largest, and at which it trains more than 40,000 people a year, mostly from US and other military and police services. The training consists of military offensive and defensive operations, as well as smaller scale personal security.
The company announced on February 13, 2009, that it would operate under the new name "Xe". In a memo sent to employees, President Gary Jackson wrote that the new name "reflects the change in company focus away from the business of providing private security." A spokesman for the company stated that it feels the Blackwater name is too closely associated with the company's work in the occupation of Iraq. Spokeswoman Anne Tyrrell said there was no meaning in the new name, which the company took over a year to arrive at in an internal search.
Xe is currently the largest of the US State Department's three private security contractors. Of the 987 contractors Xe provides, 744 are US citizens. At least 90 percent of the company's revenue comes from government contracts, of which two-thirds are no-bid contracts. Xe provided security services in Iraq to the United States federal government, particularly the Central Intelligence Agency Blackwater Worldwide Oversight records [http://methoo.com/index.php/blackwater-or-xe] on a contractual basis. They no longer have a license to operate in Iraq: the new Iraqi government made multiple attempts to expel them from their country, and denied their application for an operating license in January 2009. However, the company is still under contract with the State Department and some Xe personnel will likely remain working illegally in Iraq at least until September 2009.
Eric Prince - Founder of Blackwater
Erik D. Prince (born June 6 1969, Holland, Michigan) is the founder and sole owner of the private military company Xe, formerly Blackwater Worldwide.Licensed to Kill: Hired Guns in the War on Terror by Robert Young Pelton, Crown, 2006, pages 1 Testifying before the United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on October 2, 2007, he gave his title as chairman and CEO of the Prince Group and Blackwater Worldwide, then named Blackwater USA.Testimony of Erik D. Prince, Chairman and CEO, Blackwater For The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, October 2, 2007. On March 2, 2009, Prince announced that he was stepping down as CEO of Xe.
Al Clark - Founder of Blackwater
Amid a prolonged trend of military downsizing and outsourcing, Al Clark, along with Erik Prince, founded the private security firm Blackwater in 1997 as a business for assuming some of the roles once played by the public sector military, most notably providing security for American and British officials in the Iraq war. As a top Navy SEAL firearms instructor, Clark grew dissatisfied with the fact that the Navy did not own firing ranges, and instead had to borrow time on Marine or Army ranges or rent facilities that were highly inadequate for serving the Navy's needs. With the idea of creating a ?one-stop shopping? private training facility, Clark's concept simply lacked the financial backing, until he realized that one of his SEAL trainees (Erik Prince) was a man with similar ideas but far greater financial resources. While Erik Prince today disputes Clark's involvement in conceiving the service model which eventually became Blackwater, many former Blackwater executives admit that, while Prince was the financial power behind the formation of the company, Blackwater as a one-stop security service was essentially Clark's brainchild.
By 2000, Al Clark became increasingly disgruntled by what he saw in Blackwater's new North Carolina training facility: as a ?playground? for Erik's rich friends and a business model that focused on maximizing profits rather than providing the best possible training program. In 2000, Clark, along with Dale McClellan, left Blackwater to form Special Tactical Services, LLC.Scahill, Jeremy. (2007). Blackwater: The Rise of the Worlds Most Powerful Mercenary Army.'' New York: Nation Books
It is alleged that Al Clark is tied to governments across the world in providing weapons. Sources from the capital have stated Al Clark to be one of the few untouchable people in the U.S.
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