Blackwater Watch|Blackwater USA/Worldwide, now called Xe, is the world’s largest private mercenary army with over 20,000 soldiers and its own air force.

Four guards employed by Blackwater (now renamed Xe), a company founded by Michigan native Erik Prince, have sparked yet another international incident by opening fire on a vehicle full of Afghani civilians after a car accident in Kabul, …

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Read the full story at CommonDreams.org Headlines. by August Cole. Two of the four Blackwater-affiliated contractors involved in a civilian shooting incident in Kabul earlier this month have fled to the US in order to avoid possible …

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Blackwater Worldwide, a private security company whose work in Iraq was plagued by trouble, said yesterday that it is changing its name to Xe as it shifts its business focus. The company, based in Moyock, N.C., has more than a dozen …

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I know this is old news but I need a career change… Blackwater Worldwide, a private security company whose work in Iraq was plagued by trouble, said yesterday that it is changing its name to Xe as it shifts its business focus. …

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WASHINGTON — Armed guards from the security firm once known as Blackwater Worldwide are still protecting U.S. diplomats in Iraq, even though the company has no license to operate there and has been told by the State Department its …

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Picture 1. In 2007, Blackwater Worldwide, the world’s largest private security company, made the wrong kind of headlines when Blackwater contractors allegedly shot and killed 17 Iraqis in a crowded square in Baghdad. …

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal prosecutor who became the public face of the Justice Department’s investigation into the 2001 anthrax attacks, the killing of Chandra Levy and the Blackwater Worldwide shooting is resigning. …

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The Los Angeles Times reports this morning that Blackwater security may be forced out of Iraq: “Blackwater Worldwide,the security firm that allegedly used excessive force to protect U.S. diplomats in Iraq, will soon be. …

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Roadside bomb kills 3 near Fallujah United Press International Some of the nastiest fighting of the war occurred in Fallujah after insurgents killed four Blackwater Worldwide contractors in 2004. The city and the area around it has become much quieter because of cooperation between US forces and the Sunni …

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