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Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Boomer with Attitude / News Blackwater founder accused of murder
Posted By John Grooms on Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 2:00 PM
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.
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