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.

It probably surprises no one to learn that American foreign and security policy, which ostensibly is dedicated to extirpating terrorists worldwide, is somewhat selective in practice. … The US itself increasingly engages directly in death from the air through its expanded use of drones and there have been dark hints in some of the alternative media and even the New York Times that Delta Force and Blackwater assassination squads have been active in much of the third world …

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