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Sale of Controversial Security Firm Xe Securities Imminent

Business, Economics and Jobs

Erik D. Prince, founder of private security firm Xe Services ? formerly Blackwater Worldwide ? has reached a deal to sell his company to a small group of investors in California. Blackwater became the center of a debate about using private security firms in foreign wars after an alleged skirmish between insurgents and Blackwater personnel […]

Retired U.S. Army soldier works tirelessly to bring family of Iraqi interpreter to America

Conflict & Justice

Panetta visits Afghanistan, security breach reported as plane lands

Global Politics

United Arab Emirates Hires Blackwater Founder

Pakistan to US Ops: Get Out

Global Politics
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CIA contractor freed in Pakistan

Pakistanis are in an uproar over the release today of CIA contractor Raymond Davis. He was freed after paying two million dollars in "blood money" to the families of two men he shot and killed in January. He maintains the men were trying to rob him. The blood money is a provision commonly used under […]

CIA Contractor Raymond Davis Freed

CIA contractor Raymond Davis has been freed from a Pakistani prison and his murder case has been dropped. He was indicted on two counts of murder in the shooting deaths of two Pakistani men that, he says, were trying to kill him. Pakistani officials say Davis was pardoned by the families of the victims in […]

The World

Contractors and ‘Trigger Pullers’ Head to Afghanistan

Global Politics

There are more private contractors than American troops in Afghanistan. To find out more about their roles, The Takeaway speaks with author Jeremy Scahill and Doug Brooks, president of the International Peace Operations Association.

The World

CIA Hired Blackwater for Secret Iraq Program

Global Politics

It is now revealed that the CIA hired and trained contractors from Blackwater USA to assassinate top al Qaeda operatives, an act that was never revealed to lawmakers. The Takeaway talks to Mark Mazzetti, the New York Times reporter who broke the story.

The World

The Iraq Shooting and the History of ‘Fragging’

Environment

We’re taking a look today at the history of soldier-on-soldier violence in the U.S. military with Paul Springer, professor of history at the United States Military Academy, West Point and Major Dena Braeger, Executive Officer to the Dean of West Point.