Reply #30: Yet Blackwater / XE/ USTC/ International Development Solutions

[suffragette]

-or whatever new name they go by next month - continues to receive lucrative contracts, despite their record of violations.
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http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/01/despite-denials-blackwater-still-working-for-u-s/

... “U.S. Training Center is a subsidiary of Xe Services. Still,” Clark says. Any future security services Xe provides to State will be conducted through International Development Solutions, in which USTC is a “minority partner.”

First up — as Stein was the first to report — International Development Solutions will guard the U.S. consulate in Jerusalem, part of a Worldwide Protective Services deal worth up to $84 million. It includes providing “protective security in the West Bank,” says State Department spokesman Andy Laine.

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While the $84 million Jerusalem contract is a boon, just a week after USTC Holdings bought Xe, the company was dealt a loss when the Army opted to hire DynCorp for a $1.04 billion contract to train Afghan cops. Still, Xe got a $100 million deal to guard CIA bases in Afghanistan last year, and Clark said that the new owners retain “95 percent” of Xe’s pre-sale government contracts. He declined to specify which ones the firm no longer retains.