Blackwater winning contracts using different names:

[amborin]

Same Blackwater, Different Names

Security Contractor Continues to Win Contracts Under New Identities.

by Matthew Cole


After Blackwater contractors were accused of shooting 17 civilians in Iraq, the State Department announced it would stop doing business with the company, but ABC News has found that several other agencies, including the CIA and the Pentagon, continue to employ the controversial company, under a myriad of names, often via secret, classified contracts.

Blackwater, which changed the name of its parent company to Xe Services last year because of bad publicity, is also operating subdivisions under a variety of altered handles intended to lower its public profile. In some instances the flagship company has tried to distance itself from these offshoots, insisting they are merely "affiliates."
Public records and a source familiar with their ownership suggest, however, that the companies are nothing more than new names on the same old Blackwater. All are owned by Blackwater founder Erik Prince.

According to several military and government sources familiar with Xe's contracts, Xe also operates under the names Paravant and XPG. Both "affiliates" are based at the same Moyock, North Carolina address as Xe. Other Prince-owned companies that have received government contracts include Greystone, Raven, Constellation, US Training Center, GSD Manufacturing, and Presidential Airlines. The companies are among a total of 20 different limited liability corporations owned by Prince and registered to the same address as Blackwater-Xe.

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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/02/02-2

[FiveGoodMen]

1. !

:grr:

[druidity33]

2. K&R, nt.

[KonaKane]

3. Oh there's a good trick. Sounds like they are managed by this guy...

"Us? Blackwater? No no, we are uh...we are uh now called uh....Xe...yeah, that's it. We're not the same people at all. Yeah, that's right....that's the ticket!"

[lpbk2713]

4. They learned a lot under the sneaky and evil BushCo Regime.

Same Shit, Different Day.

[FiveGoodMen]

6. Same Shit, Different Admin

[Solly Mack]

5. It's kinda like redefining torture makes torture not torture

Changing your name magically wipes the slate clean.

[Overseas]

7. K&R. Xe, Pravant and XPG so far, eh? Let's keep watch. //nt

[amborin]

8. Gates admits Blackwater in Pakistan:

"Backtracking on Blackwater: A month after The Nation's Jeremy Scahill reported on Blackwater's activities in Pakistan ("The Secret US War in Pakistan," December 21), Defense Secretary Robert Gates confirmed that the company is operating there. In a January 21 interview on Pakistan's Express 24/7 TV-news channel,

Gates said, "They are operating as individual companies here in Pakistan," according to an official DoD transcript. The following day, a Pakistani official acknowledged that Blackwater was operating in the country's frontier areas with the "consent and permission" of the Pakistani government, saying he had discussed the issue with officials at the US Consulate in Peshawar, who told him that Blackwater was training Pakistani forces."

thenation.com

[ddeclue]

9. Blackwater is too easy to pronounce..they want something you can't pronounce

to discourage you from talking about them..