Same Blackwater, Different Names (Company Continues to Win Contracts Under New Identities)

[sabra]

Source: ABC News

Security Contractor Continues to Win Contracts Under New Identities.

Feb. 1, 2010 —

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.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/blackwater-names/story?id=9634372

[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

[RamboLiberal]

2. K&R - Important we note all these aliases

[Flying Dream Blues]

3. Sigh...

And I wonder what Xe stands for?
K&R

[louis-t]

5. Xe biggest bastards in the world?

[Richard Steele]

4. K&R

[hootinholler]

6. I'm curious why this was moved out of LBN?

It was published today and the headline is correct, but yet it was moved to GD.

:shrug:

-Hoot

[glitch]

7. The moderators remove less reputable information sources to GD. Apparently ABC now qualifies

as less reputable. Understandable. ;)

[LeftinOH]

8. Maybe it would be easier to ban anything run by or associated with Erik Prince (of darkness),

Seriously.