Blackwater's menacing new ad: "WE ARE COMING"

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Mattis is out, and Blackwater is back: ‘We are coming’

By: Tara Copp

Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis is out.

Mattis' resignation comes amid news that President Donald Trump has directed the drawdown of 2,000 U.S. forces in Syria, and 7,000 U.S. forces from Afghanistan, a U.S. official confirmed to Military Times, a story first reported by the Wall Street Journal.

This month, in the January/February print issue of the gun and hunting magazine “Recoil," the former contractor security firm Blackwater USA published a full-page ad, in all black with a simple message: “We are coming.”

Is the war in Afghanistan — and possibly elsewhere ― about to be privatized?

If Blackwater returns, it would be the return of a private security contractor that was banned from Iraq, but re-branded and never really went away. By 2016 Blackwater had been re-named and restructured several times, and was known at the time as Constellis Group, when it was purchased by the Apollo Holdings Group. Reuters reported earlier this year that Apollo had put Constellis up for sale, but in June the sale was put on hold.

A representative for Constellis told Military Times late Friday that while it had acquired the former Blackwater training center in the 2016 purchase, it has no affiliation with the former security firm. It did not retain Blackwater’s founder and former CEO Erik Prince and has no current connection to him, or the firm’s former management structure.

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https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2018/12/21/mattis-is-out-and-blackwater-is-back-we-are-coming/
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Erik Prince should be serving a life sentence in federal prison instead of capitalizing on POtuS treason. Unfuckingbelievable.

[eleny]

1. So is January 3rd

[spanone]

2. with trump, think of the worse thing that could happen and multiply by 10

[rockfordfile]

3. Obama didn't do anything about them

[Hekate]

5. And your point is?

[VOX]

4. "I know this one, Alex! What do all men feel compelled to shout immediately prior to climax?"

It’s bad, I know. If I hadn’t, someone else would have.

[Ciaphas Cain]

6. Banned from a warzone

More trouble than they're worth for a variety of reasons.

Known for habitually going off the reservation and creating gigantic nightmare situations like civilian massacres.

Also known for not being accountable to Congress!

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/03/world/middleeast/03firefight.html

[Horse with no Name]

7. I know someone who had a small 2-person security

Company in Virginia.
Blackwater bought those 2 guys out for many millions to obtain the name and the company because Of the bad reputation of Blackwater