Source: The Nation Inside sources reveal that the firm works with the US military in Karachi to plan targeted assassinations and drone bombings, among other sensitive counterterrorism operations. by Jeremy Scahill November 23, 2009 At a covert forward operating base run by the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, members of an [...]

versión corta en español abajo by Mark Mazzetti and James Risen November 10, 2009 WASHINGTON – Top executives at Blackwater Worldwide authorized secret payments of about $1 million to Iraqi officials that were intended to silence their criticism and buy their support after a September 2007 episode in which Blackwater security guards fatally shot 17 Iraqi civilians in [...]

by Aleem Maqbool October 30, 2009 Recently, while Pakistan’s government may have been saying the things that the White House wants to hear, the country’s media and public have often been openly hostile towards the United States. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s charm offensive this week suggests that she recognises that. Town hall-style meetings with students in Lahore [...]

Torturas, programas secretos e ilegalidades, forman parte indisoluble de sus “tareas” por Marta G. Sojo (inter@bohemia.co.cu) 16 de octubre de 2009 Hay comentarios históricos de que nunca la Agencia Central de Inteligencia (CIA) olió bien. No pocos se preguntan por qué tanta “novedosa” sorpresa entre algunos personajes, si es evidente que las prácticas de esta entidad nunca han [...]

by Jane Perlez October 5, 2009 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – Steps by the United States to vastly expand its aid to Pakistan, as well as the footprint of its embassy and private security contractors here, are aggravating an already volatile anti-American mood as Washington pushes for greater action by the government against the Taliban. An aid package of $1.5 [...]

by Jeremy Scahill September 16, 2009 Two years ago on September 16, 2007, on a steamy hot Baghdad day with temperatures reaching 100 degrees, a heavily armed Blackwater convoy entered a congested intersection at Nisour Square in the Mansour district of the Iraqi capital. The once-upscale section of Baghdad was still lined with boutiques, cafes and art [...]

by T. Christian Miller, ProPublica and Aram Roston September 18, 2009 Last spring, the U.S. diplomatic mission in Iraq got a makeover,replacing the scandal-plagued Blackwater private security company with a firm named Triple Canopy. The new $1 billion contract cemented Triple Canopy’s status as the pre-eminent provider of private security services in Iraq, with its heavily armed employees [...]

by Bill Sizemore September 16, 2009 Yet another civil lawsuit accuses Blackwater guards of driving through the streets of Baghdad randomly shooting innocent Iraqis. The latest case accuses Blackwater founder Erik Prince of personally directing murders from a 24-hour remote monitoring “war room” at the private military company’s Moyock, N.C., headquarters. Prince “personally directed and permitted a heavily-armed private [...]

by Maqbool Malik September 15, 2009 Islamabad – US private security outfit Blackwater has begun to expand its presence in Karachi port city in the backdrop of the Peshawar debacle last month when Craig Davis a suspected operative of the US company was caught red handed involved in objectionable activities. Well-placed sources told The Nation on Monday that [...]

by James Risen September 13, 2009 WASHINGTON — Private security guards who worked for Blackwater repeatedly shot wildly into the streets of Baghdad without regard for civilians long before they were involved in a 2007 shooting episode that left at least 14 Iraqis dead, federal prosecutors charge in a new court document. While traveling through Baghdad in heavily [...]