Blackwater trains mercenaries in Philippines

[BunkerHill24]

Blackwater trains mercenaries in Philippines
Sun, 30 Aug 2009 15:40:22 GMT


The notorious US private security contractor, formerly known as Blackwater, uses a Philippines location to train mercenaries for Iraq and Afghanistan operations.

The company has been lent a former US naval base, northwest of the Manila Bay, "where they can train up to one thousand private military contractors," Washington-based journalist Wayne Madsen told Russia Today on Friday.

They train people from India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Fiji and the Philippines for operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and other location where they operate, according to Madsen..

The company was denied lease of the base three years ago and was reportedly operating there via a proxy. "We have also been told about a Blackwater subsidiary called Satelles Solutions," the investigative journalist added.

The group's stated mission is to provide security for US diplomats and diplomatic facilities as part of the State Department's Worldwide Personal Protection Program.

The company, which has changed its name to Xe Services, LLC, however, is notorious for misusing its State Department-issued gun license as an excuse for trigger-ready atrocities, namely the killing of 17 civilians in Iraq in 2007. The Department, however, has refused to waive its permission to carry arms in Iraq.

The company also continues to be extensively involved in Afghanistan where 70,000 US-commissioned contractors almost doubly outnumber the US troops.

One of the licentiate's staff workers has recently filed a sworn testimony in a US federal court against the security firm that may lead to new revelations and scandals. The employee has reportedly alleged that Blackwater's president, Eric Prince may have murdered or commissioned the murder of the telltales on the company.

The Pentagon is, meanwhile, accused of trusting avoidable deeds with the contractors.

The private firms "are far removed from inspectors general, from the general Government Accountability Office and other people who look into their functions. Because they can claim, off course, that their information is proprietary…they are a private company," Madsen concluded.

"It is a way to get around a lot of the oversight regulations in the government. So we find them training border patrol agents, we find them training US military special forces and what not."

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[Demeter]

1. Well, That's Just Lovely

Not content with having poisoned the world economy with massive, layer up on layer of fraud; not content with having wrapped the world in toxins and teaching others to do the same; the US is now exporting a particularly virulent form of murder for hire and spreading it over the world.

We are our own Terminators. Congratulations all around.

I WANT MY COUNTRY BACK! I WANT THESE CRIMINALS IMPRISONED AND THEIR ENABLERS DEAD. I WANT TO BELIEVE IN AN IMPROVING WORLD, NOT THIS ABYSS THAT CORPORATIONS AND PSYCHOPATHS HAVE DRIVEN US INTO.

I want our children his, hers, yours and mine, to have a fighting chance at a life worth living.

[IndianaGreen]

2. More Change You Can Believe In

I've had my fill of all these changes in which nothing really changes.

[Demeter]

3. Oh, Things Change All Right--From Bad to Worse

Either intrinsically worse, or worse because it's done now in the name and guise of Democrats.

[IndianaGreen]

4. Vietnam was a Democratic war

until Nixon made it his own.

We needed more politicians like Wayne Morse back then.

[BB1]

5. Marked for later

reading. Blackwater, can't we abolish them or something? Erik Prince is as good as in jail, let the rest of them rot away too!

[snake in the grass]

6. I am really sick of this shit!

Cancel the contracts with Blackwater, straight up. Don't recognize them and pull all of these blood-thirsty fuckers out immediately. When they bitch about it, say "Tell it to the hand. We don't give a fuck". There must be some legal way of doing this, even if it involves acrobatics. Blackwater is a criminal organization that should have never been allowed to emerge. Cut the funds and investigate them to bankruptcy. Jesus Christ, this makes me so fucking ill!