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San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 1 day ago
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Tags: current rated, San Francisco, Dick Cheney, Motion Picture Association of America film rating system, Motion Picture Association of America, Cinema of the United States, International Peace Operations Association, Blackwater Worldwide, Circumcision, Mercenaries
A tale of two stories
Islamabad :: Pakistan | 2 days ago
Credibility Secret military operations are the blackest of black holes, and if the media and the public kick up a fuss over Blackwater, the army will quietly switch to some other opaque tactic.’ – Photo by AP. Military men have been up to some very bad things, we’ve...
Tags: Blackwater, Pakistan, Islamabad, Politics, International Peace Operations Association, Blackwater Worldwide, Currituck County North Carolina, Private military contractors, Mercenaries, Inter-Services Intelligence, Joint Special Operations Command, Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, Taliban, Central Intelligence Agency, War Conflict
NBA star pays for slain girl's funeral
Fayetteville :: NC :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility N.C. – Shaquille ONeal has paid for the funeral of 5-year-old Shaniya Davis after being moved by the story of her abduction and killing. The Cleveland Cavaliers star was touched by the stories he saw and got in touch with the family to see what he could...
Tags: Shaquille O\'Neal, Shaniya Davis, NBA, Cleveland Cavaliers, nba star, North Carolina, star shaquille, Fayetteville, Law Crime, Human Interest, Fayetteville North Carolina, O'Neal, Red Sea, Blackwater Worldwide, Maguindanao, Jeddah, Mecca, Shaquille, Los Angeles Lakers, Cumberland County North Carolina, Nancy Grace, Utah, Private military contractors, The Fayetteville Observer, Mercenaries
Security agency Blackwater not operating in Pakistan: US
Peshawar :: Pakistan | 4 days ago
Credibility The US embassy here has rejected suggestions of secret operations by American security agency Blackwater in Pakistan, terming them false and baseless. An article in a US magazine alleging Washington's collusion with Blackwater or any other contracting...
Tags: Pakistan, Blackwater, Peshawar, Politics, Chronology of terrorist incidents in Pakistan, Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, Blackwater Worldwide, Waziristan, Government of Pakistan, War Conflict, Cities along the Silk Road, Swat Pakistan, International Peace Operations Association, War in North-West Pakistan, Currituck County North Carolina, North-West Frontier Province, Private military contractors, Mercenaries
US firm 'runs covert Pakistan ops'
Karāchi :: Pakistan | 4 days ago
Credibility In 2006, the Bush administration struck a deal with the government in Islamabad that would allow US special forces to actually enter Pakistani territory if what they were doing was hunting Osama bin Laden or his top deputies. "The agreement was such that...
Tags: Pakistani, Blackwater, private military, military firm, secret war, scahill reveals, Pakistan, Karāchi, Politics, Blackwater Worldwide, International Peace Operations Association, Currituck County North Carolina, Private military contractors, Joint Special Operations Command, Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, Central Intelligence Agency, Democracy Now!, United States Joint Special Operations Command, War Conflict, Jeremy Scahill, War in North-West Pakistan, Mercenaries
Heritage Oil buying Turkey's Genel Enerji
İstanbul :: Turkey | 6 days ago
Credibility Heritage Oil Ltd., an energy company with operations in Russia and the Middle East, said Tuesday it will buy the privately held oil producer Genel Enerji AS of Turkey for stock worth more than 3 billion Canadian dollars ($2.7 billion). Heritage, which...
Tags: Heritage Oil, Genel Enerji AS, Iraq, Kurdistan, Turkey, İstanbul, Iraqi Kurdistan, Fertile Crescent, Mercenaries, Tony Buckingham, Business Finance
Mercenary tells of torture in Black Beach prison
Bata :: Equatorial Guinea | 7 days ago
Credibility A gun was placed to his head and he was threatened with death by an adviser to Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, mercenary Nick du Toit has told Rapport . In a three-hour-interview with the newspaper, Du Toit said he was dragged from...
Tags: Du Toit, Equatorial Guinea, Niek du Toit, Bata, Simon Mann, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, Black Beach, Obiang, Mercenary, Year of birth missing, Coups, Nick du Toit, Politics, The Dogs of War, Coup d'ￃﾩtat, War Conflict, Severo Moto Nsￃﾡ, Equatorial Guinea coup d'ￃﾩtat attempt, Mercenaries
Court respite for Blackwater guard
Baghdad :: Iraq | 8 days ago
Credibility A one-paragraph notice filed on Friday says only that prosecutors have asked that the case against Nicholas Slatten be dropped. The government's detailed request to the court was filed with the judge and with the defendant, but was not made public. The...
Tags: Blackwater Worldwide, Nicholas Slatten, Iraqi, blackwater guard, Baghdad, manslaughter charged, Tennessee, Iraq, Currituck County North Carolina, International Peace Operations Association, Blackwater Baghdad shootings, Prosecutor, Abtan v. Blackwater, Private military contractors, Mercenaries, Law Crime, Politics, Blackwater Security Consulting, Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, War Conflict
US strike kills 11 in North Waziristan Monitoring Desk
Islamabad :: Pakistan | 9 days ago
Credibility US strike kills 11 in North Waziristan Monitoring Desk MIR ALI: The US drone attacked twice North Waziristan leaving 11 dead and many injured on Friday. A suspected US missile strike killed at least eight militants in Matchi Khel of North Waziristan...
Tags: pakistan, waziristan, raza gilani, Pakistani, Pakistan Peoples Party, Tell Pakistan, thursday, al-qaeda, taliban, allnews, Islamabad, International Peace Operations Association, Mercenaries, Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, Blackwater Worldwide, Private military contractors, Currituck County North Carolina, Politics, Benazir Bhutto, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Nusrat Bhutto, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Bhutto family, Pakistani politicians, Sindhi people, Drone attacks in Pakistan, War in North-West Pakistan, Mir Ali Pakistan, War Conflict, Inter-Services Intelligence, Reactions to the 2008 Mumbai attacks, Foreign relations of India, Indian National Congress, Manmohan Singh, Mumbai attacks
Fine and inquiry possible for Blackwater successor
Baghdad :: Iraq | 10 days ago
Credibility In talks likely to result in millions of dollars in penalties, executives from the company, now known as Xe Services, are negotiating with government regulators over years of violations of export laws. According to government officials and former company...
Tags: State Department, Iraq, Baghdad, International Peace Operations Association, Mercenaries, War Conflict, Blackwater Worldwide, Private military contractors, Currituck County North Carolina, Business Finance, Politics, Kurdistan Workers' Party, Iraqi Kurdistan, Blackwater Worldwide arms smuggling allegations, Law Crime
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