Thursday, April 29, 2010

Canadian DND contracted with Blackwater

as we were saying: DND contracted with Blackwater
Excerpt:
National
Post: The National Defence Department has spent more than
$6-million having its troops trained by the controversial Blackwater
security company [recently renamed Xe Services], whose own employees
have been accused of needlessly killing civilians in Iraq and
Afghanistan, documents show.

The department sent a
succession of personnel to Blackwater's Moyock, NC, training compound
from 2005 to as recently as April 2009... The work continued even after
the US State Department cancelled its pricey security contract with the
company in Iraq amid mounting criticism of Blackwater's actions...