Did Blackwater sneak silencers into Iraq?

[RamboLiberal]

Source: MSNBC

Federal agents are investigating allegations that the Blackwater USA security firm illegally exported dozens of firearms sound suppressors — commonly known as silencers — to Iraq and other countries for use by company operatives, sources close to the investigation tell NBC News.

Investigators from various federal agencies, including the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the State Department and the Commerce Department, are digging into the allegations that the company exported the silencers without getting necessary export approval, according to law enforcement sources, who spoke to NBC News on condition of anonymity. The sources said the investigation is part of a broader examination of potential firearms and export violations.

Coincidentally, the company’s main responsibility in Iraq is protecting officials of the State Department, the agency that regulates exports of arms. The firm had more than $500 million in federal contracts in 2006.

Anne Tyrrell, a Blackwater spokeswoman, refused to comment on any specific allegations of the firearms investigation but said that “of course we would cooperate as we do in any investigation.”

The sources tell NBC News that Blackwater purchased the silencers legally from SWR Manufacturing, formerly of Georgia and now located in Pickens, S.C. SWR manufactures the devices for pistols, rifles and machine guns. The purchases took place over several years, the sources say.



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I want to see Erik Prince in handcuffs and these this mercenary company taken down! They are a danger to us! Read on the penalty is up to 10 years in prison and $1 million per count.

[rodeodance]

1. Blackwater is all lawyered up now.

[GodlessBiker]

2. Yes, they are in total lockdown (and denial) mode now.

[Quantess]

3. K & R.

[burrowowl]

4. K&R

Why am I not surprised!?!

[Quantess]

5. Um,

you K'd but you didn't R. Just sayin'.
I like owls.

[Islander Expat]

6. Its no surprise, a specwar weapons inventory almost always includes...

suppressors for every weapon, and most of Blackwater is ex-specwar.

They gots to have their toys.

[jeff30997]

7. "of course we would cooperate as we do in any investigation"

Yeah,right,of course!

Edit: K&R

[StClone]

8. Laws!? We are BLAXH2O!? Buddies O'Bush

Laws, there are no laws only torture, death and mega-bucks.

[tom_paine]

9. Erik Prince and the Bushies woul murder tens of thousands to prevent that from happening

A "terrorist attack" don't you know. Bshler will protect one of the key implenets of his New Totalitarianism a paramilitary force beholden to no law but Fuhrer and Prince-Fuhrer, which can easily be turned into Right-Wing Death Squads to murder us when the time is right.

Every totalitarian nation, right or left, has this common feature: a paramilitary force beholden to no law but Fuhrer and Prince-Fuhrer.

Trust me, the Bushies will do ANYTHING to keep Blackwater to be harmed or disbanded. The closer Americans come to doing real damage, the bigger the retaliation.

Which I think is one of the reasons the Democrat KNOW not to go too far, because as the Mafia would say while actinmg like Bushies, "One never knows what could happen to you, Congressman. Why, an al-Qaeda plane could crash into the Capitol while you're all inside, or maybe one of our envelopes of American-made anthrax might find it's way to you like it did in 2001."

In iether case, make book on this. If Prince or Blackwater is threatened, the Bushies will make sure that people die as a message of warning. Of course it will be an "accident" or "suicide" or "terrorist attack" which will give the murdering Bushei the Plausible Deniability they all crave for their multiple criminal ventures.

[LaurenG]

10. I doubt they snuck them in. They just brought them in along

with the "personnel".