Blackwater (Xe) Among CIA Dead in Afghanistan

From THE AUSTRALIAN (http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/blackwater-staff-among-those-killed-­in-cia-base-bombing/story-e6frg6so-1225817125525)A suicide attack on a CIA base in Afghanistan a week ago killed two contractors with Xe, the controversial private security firm once known as Blackwater. The two were apparently among seven CIA operatives and a Jordanian intelligence officer killed in the December 30 attack, by a Jordanian double-agent, who blew himself up inside Forward Operating Base Chapman. US reports yesterday said Dane Clak Paresi, 46, a Xe contractor and retired soldier, was killed in the blast. A newspaper near Xe's base in North Carolina said Jeremy Wise, another contractor and a former Navy SEAL, was killed as well. The reports point to a continued close relationship between the CIA and Blackwater. The firm is believed to have participated in programs to kill top al-Qa'ida terrorists in 2004, and CIA "snatch and grab" missions to capture or kill insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan. But the CIA had appeared to distance itself from the firm in recent years, particularly after five Blackwater employees were charged with killing 14 unarmed Iraqi civilians and wounding 18 others during an unprovoked attack in Baghdad in 2007. A US judge recently dismissed criminal charges against the five, but not before the firm lost its contract to provide security for US embassy diplomats in Baghdad and other CIA contracts. Erik Prince, the former US Navy SEAL who founded Blackwater, told Vanity Fair magazine earlier this month he felt betrayed that his role in working with the CIA had become public. His role in the CIA program was widely reported after CIA head Leon Panetta briefed US politicians on its existence.

From THE WALL STREET JOURNAL (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126297717069421903.html?mod=WSJ_WSJ_US_World) German authorities are investigating a published report that the Central Intelligence Agency conceived a plan with the Blackwater security firm to assassinate a man who allegedly helped fund the Sept. 11 hijackers in Hamburg. The alleged plot was never carried out, but under certain circumstances planning a murder could be a crime under German law. A German parliamentary committee and Hamburg prosecutors said they had initiated separate investigations into the matter. Details of the alleged plot appeared in an article about Blackwater founder Erik Prince published by Vanity Fair in its current issue; in the article, there was no suggestion that Mr. Prince was aware of the plan. The report, citing a single anonymous source, said that Blackwater, acting under contract with the CIA, dispatched a team to Hamburg for several weeks at an unspecified date to organize the assassination of Mamoun Darkazanli, a dual Syrian-German national. The alleged plot was canceled, according to the Vanity Fair article, because of a "lack of political will" in Washington to order the execution.

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• Hamburg assassination plot
• Mamoun Darkazanli

[mynameisbobtoo]

We all need to stop paying taxes until the Office of the GAO can give americans 100% accountability of where our tax money is going as per the law.

[hfouad2008]

@mynameisbobtoo

i will tell you where your tax go :

1- supporting every dictators in world so the kill their nations

2- giving weapons to racist Zionist to kill Palestinian children and women

3- invading other nations lands , killing millions of innocents , take out the hope from others

then a foolish american writer make a book asking "why they hate america?"

[michaelsterling37]

What a ugly guy this Maddow.

[banner1835]

@hfouad2008 Instead of making up numbers, Why don.t you give us the actual number of girls in Arab countries whose genitalia is mutilated, how many girl babies are disposed of in China?

[banner1835]

@hfouad2008 With you living life through others and telling them all the negatives . Where the fuck do you get millions of children, No reason to talk to you .Idiot!

[banner1835]

@DYORPEEPS Are you related to Bin Laden?

[bigbrother1994]

the man said it at the very end.. "HE IS A CHRISTIAN CRUSADER ALREADY" and with those fukrs the crusades are still on, and thats why they are supporting Isreal,, these fukrs should be starved of the masses $ .

[1forjohnny]

Where ever Blackwater go , the US Govt. is doing something illegal,

[SMUDGEPARA]

@hfouad2008 Try it

[Trooper101st]

@missbehavin099 u say usa gave iraq their freedom???? dont make me laugh mate..your not even free in ur own country..stop being a brainwashed sheep believing in everything u read in papers & on the tv.

[SoullessSkater]

i love it how they say the goverment does not pay the contractors with tax payer money. i know the politicians dont pay them out of pocket. so where do they get the money from in the first place? explain that obama

[rhcpfrush420]

rachel maddow had a sex change, totally a dude