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Blackwater USA
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Blackwater USA is a private security firm founded in 1997 by a former U. S. Navy SEAL (Erik Prince).
They claim to be a professional military, law enforcement, security, peacekeeping, and stability operations firm. They have been employed by the US State department to provide security for senior US diplomats while in Iraq.
What they appear to be is a bunch of trigger happy cnuts who fire first and then when the questions get asked, hide behind the unique status of immunity from Iraqi law but are not accountable to anyone in the US either.
The Wikipedia page here lists a large number of friendly fire 'incidents' where Blackwater have wracked up a body count where it wasn't required including the shooting of a Iraqi Vice Presidents guard by a drunken Blackwater employee. The State Department tried unsuccessfully to cover up this murder as the killer left the country immediately.
