Carlyle Group , Blackwater among companies in line for narco-terror contracts

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Blackwater, Arizona companies in line for narco-terror contracts
Four of the five government contractors in line for portions of a $15 billion Pentagon contract to counter "narco-terrorism" have operations in Arizona.

The Department of Defense program aims to develop new technologies and applications to combat international illegal drug trafficking and its ties to terrorism and anti-American groups

Lockheed Martin, ARINC Inc., Raytheon Co., Northrop Grumman Corp. and Blackwater USA are the private contractors lined up for the work, according to the Defense Department's contract announcement.

Blackwater USA is the only company of the five that does not have operations in Arizona.

ARINC is based in Annapolis, Md. and is part of the Carlyle Group private equity firm. ARINC has operations in Scottsdale, Phoenix, Tucson and the U.S. Army base at Fort Huachuca.
http://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/othercities/phoenix/stories/2007/11/12/daily19.html

[aquart]

1. Legalize drugs. Remove the profit or give it to Big Pharma.

Let THEM buy the coca leaves. Let THEM deal with the Taliban for opium. Let THEM grow the marijuana. Trade them the narcotics for insulin and heart medicine and HIV cocktail.

I think we can come to an arrangement.

[DCKit]

2. Half their insanely profitible product lines would disappear.

But Bwahahahahahha!!!! You funny!

My concern is that private corporations are not bound by the same laws and expectations of conduct as the police and military, or even the FBI, for that matter. How many civilian deaths and illegal incarcerations/kidnappings/tortures will it take before the Amurikan peoples wake the hell up?

This is a very, very bad thing.

[lovuian]

3. the Gestapo is Back

Bush's army