The Nation magazine reports a bombshell of a news story today about one of North Carolina’s biggest and most controversial employers. Writer Jeremy Scahill reports that two former employees of Blackwater — the N.C.-based military/security company that’s facing charges in an American court for killing and injuring Iraqi civilians — have made astonishing allegations in sworn affidavits filed in federal court Monday in Virginia. The two men say that Erik Prince, the owner of Blackwater (now called Xe), either murdered or “facilitated the murder” of people who were helping federal authorities’ investigation of the company. According to Scahill, the pair also allege that Prince “views himself as a Christian crusader tasked with eliminating Muslims and the Islamic faith from the globe,” and that he had personally smuggled illegal weapons into Iraq. At this point, these are still just allegations. Scahill’s reporting on Blackwater/Xe has been topnotch, and he has previously provided plenty of evidence of the company’s war profiteering and its habit of acting as a law unto itself.
- Erik Prince in “spoofier” days
This article appears in Best of Charlotte 2009.
Might want to consider exactly WHO he is accused by:
“The allegations, and a series of other charges, are contained in sworn affidavits, given under penalty of perjury, as part of a seventy-page motion by lawyers for Iraqi civilians suing Blackwater for alleged war crimes and other misconduct.”
To lib rags; Iraq’s looking for a payday are a pretty credible group I suppose.
Harper’s Magazine contributing editor Scott Horton will be my guest Monday Aug 10 at 5 PM NY time on News Talk Online on Paltalk.com to discuss the allegations against Blackwater.
Please go to my blog, http://www.garybaumgarten.com to join in the conversation then.
Thanks,
Gary
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