Guest guest Posted May 24, 2007 Report Share Posted May 24, 2007 the return of the mercenary... * Pivotal Family Lawsuit Against Blackwater USA Blocked from Court -- and Moved to Panel with Company Ties * A landmark lawsuit brought by the families of four employees of the security firm Blackwater USA killed in Iraq three years ago has been partially derailed. This week, a federal judge ordered the lawsuit to be decided behind closed doors in arbitration -- allowing Blackwater to avoid public examination of its practices in Iraq. One of the three arbitrators could be William Webster, who served as head of the FBI and CIA under President Reagan and has personal and business ties to several Blackwater lawyers. We speak with Bill Sizemore of the Virginian-Pilot, and Jeremy Scahill, author of ³Blackwater: The Rise of the World¹s Most Powerful Mercenary Army.² Listen/Watch/Read http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/23/1429251 * Jeremy Scahill Responds to Blackwater CEO Erik Prince, Visits Blackwater Sites and Prince¹s Hometown * Blackwater has remained relatively quiet in the face of its critics, but last week, the company¹s founder, Erik Prince, wrote an article to the Grand Rapids Press in response to a series of articles in the paper on Blackwater. The paper has referred to Jeremy Scahill¹s book as putting Prince in the national media spotlight. We get Scahill¹s response, and hear about his recent visit to Prince¹s hometown and new Blackwater sites in California and Illinois. Listen/Watch/Read http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/23/1429259 * Leading GOP Candidate Romney Taps Blackwater's Cofer Black as Campaign Adviser * Leading Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has tapped Blackwater executive Cofer Black as a senior campaign advisor. Romney has called for a doubling of the US prison camp at Guantanamo. Black - who has been vice chairman at Blackwater for two years - was director of the CIA Counterterrorism Center during 9/11 and led the agency's hunt for Osama bin Laden. Listen/Watch/Read http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/23/1541229 “The Earth is not dying - she is being killed. And those who are killing her have names and addresses.†— Utah Phillips Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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