Blackwater is still working for the USThe Pentagon and CIA are still employing controversial military contractor Blackwater in Afghanistan (albeit under a new name), despite allegations of involvement in murder, gun-running, child prostitution and more, ABC News reveals.
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Outsourcing the Afghan surge
As the US and NATO pump tens of thousands of new troops into Afghanistan, at least 50% of the workforce will be made up of private contractors, say TPM. Because that’s worked so well in the past…
Trigger-happy private security guards wreaking havoc in Afghanistan
Undisciplined and “trigger-happy” private security guards contracted by foreign forces in Afghanistan are killing civilians and undermining counterinsurgency strategy, according to the Army Times.
More private contractors in Afghanistan than troops
There are 104,100 people employed by private military contractors working for the US in Afghanistan — more than the number of actual US troops, even after the new deployments.
Doing the CIA’s dirty work: former Blackwater chief reveals all
The former head of controversial US military contractor Blackwater, Erik Prince, tells all to Vanity Fair about the company’s assassination and espionage work for the CIA in Afghanistan and Iraq
The real costs of privatising war
It costs the US one million dollars to support one soldier for one year in Afghanistan. Why so much? The private contractors employed to do things like cooking and laundry are charging outrageous amounts — and whistleblowers are being kept under wraps.
Karzai to boot all private security contractors out of Afghanistan
Afghan President Hamid Karzai dropped a bombshell in his inaugural speech the other week, but barely anyone noticed: he plans to rid the country of “all private national and international security firms” — that’s a good 10,000 people, many of them working for the US military.
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US security contractor planned a $1m cover-up of Iraqi civilian killings
The US military security contractor formerly known as Blackwater paid $1 million in an attempt to buy Iraqi officials’ silence over the killing of 17 Iraqi civilians by Blackwater guards in 2007, claims the NYT.
Did Gawker prompt a State Department investigation?
US secretary of state Hillary Clinton has ordered an investigation into allegations that private security contractors guarding the US embassy in Kabul are having wild, drunken parties involving prostitutes, violence and hazing. Can snarky media gossip site Gawker take credit?
Keggers in Kabul: security contractors party hard
A letter sent to US secretary of state Hillary Clinton alleges that the private security contractors guarding the US Embassy in Kabul are living in a “Lord of the Flies” environment, with parties involving drunken brawls, prostitutes, hazing and humiliation a regular event.
US security contractor in Iraq linked to weapons smuggling and child prostitution
New accusations against Blackwater USA — until recently, the largest private military contractor in Iraq — and its founder Erik Prince allege their involvement in weapons smuggling, sex rings, child prostitution and promoting “Christian supremacy”.
Defence contractors and racial discrimination exemptions
In states and territories across Australia, the political and legislative consensus has always been that discriminating against people on the basis of race and/or nationality in the context of employment is illegal.
