GoSox05 Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 I love these Blackwater guys. http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090817/scahill A former Blackwater employee and an ex-US Marine who has worked as a security operative for the company have made a series of explosive allegations in sworn statements filed on August 3 in federal court in Virginia. The two men claim that the company's owner, Erik Prince, may have murdered or facilitated the murder of individuals who were cooperating with federal authorities investigating the company. The former employee also alleges that Prince "views himself as a Christian crusader tasked with eliminating Muslims and the Islamic faith from the globe," and that Prince's companies "encouraged and rewarded the destruction of Iraqi life." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigSqwert Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 based on everything we know about Blackwater I find this hard to believe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlaSoxxJim Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Aug 5, 2009 -> 12:47 PM) based on everything we know about Blackwater I find this hard to believe. Did your computer run out of green? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigSqwert Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Aug 5, 2009 -> 03:25 PM) Did your computer run out of green? I figured after 14K posts most people would realize 98% of what I post is sarcastic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HuskyCaucasian Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlaSoxxJim Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Aug 5, 2009 -> 04:27 PM) I figured after 14K posts most people would realize 98% of what I post is sarcastic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoSox05 Posted August 5, 2009 Author Share Posted August 5, 2009 QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Aug 5, 2009 -> 03:31 PM) I miss that show. They really messed up canceling that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HuskyCaucasian Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 (edited) QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Aug 5, 2009 -> 03:37 PM) I miss that show. They really messed up canceling that. Amen. I was really hoping Sci-Fi was going to pick them up, but they didnt. Apparently a feature film is in the works, as is a comic book... excuse me... graphic novel. But nothing will beat the show. "It's not just wishful thinking," Shotz said in an exclusive interview Tuesday at CBS Studios in Studio City, Calif., where he screened the pilot of his new series, Harper's Island. He added: "We've ... been developing a feature to hopefully make, because we would love to. I mean, ... Jericho is so built in a way, ... especially where we left off season two, to create a feature. So our hope is to launch this comic-book series and then, with the development at the same time of the feature, hopefully get that launched as well." Edited August 5, 2009 by Athomeboy_2000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoSox05 Posted August 5, 2009 Author Share Posted August 5, 2009 Amen. I was really hoping Sci-Fi was going to pick them up, but they didnt. Apparently a feature film is in the works, as is a comic book... excuse me... graphic novel. But nothing will beat the show. A feature film would be cool. I just don't understand how people won't watch a cool, original show like that, but we have 10 seasons of the Bachelor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HuskyCaucasian Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Aug 5, 2009 -> 03:47 PM) A feature film would be cool. I just don't understand how people won't watch a cool, original show like that, but we have 10 seasons of the Bachelor. I saw the show as "LOST lite". Same idea in the way of story structure and mysteries. So, i naturally went right to it. Actually, watched the Pilot free on iTunes after the first season was over. Fell in love, and watched every episode online over the course of the next few nights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmags Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 mmmk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HuskyCaucasian Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 ok, thread hijacking over. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nixon Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 I'm ok with this. I just wish the US could have gotten a better bang for their buck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KipWellsFan Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 (edited) Those are pretty stunning allegations, but at this point just that. Do I really believe this Prince guy is acting like ruthless dictator or mob boss? All the same I'm very disturbed by the idea of a large private military ran by a right wing religous nut. Edited August 5, 2009 by KipWellsFan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmags Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 QUOTE (KipWellsFan @ Aug 5, 2009 -> 11:09 PM) Those are pretty stunning allegations, but at this point just that. Do I really believe this Prince guy is acting like ruthless dictator or mob boss? All the same I'm very disturbed by the idea of a large private military ran by a right wing religous nut. well all stories of blackwater has shown a degree of lawlessness. So this wouldn't shock me, and mob boss wouldn't be entirely inaccurate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmags Posted August 20, 2009 Share Posted August 20, 2009 Couldn't remember where the topic about Panetta scratching that secret CIA program should've gone, but so, the reason it alarmed him was because we were contracting blackwater to do it . I'm more than fine if not happy that these types of programs are being enacted. I think these programs are more effective in fighting terror cells than when we were working cold war in the 50s. However, to outsource it to a private contracting firm, especially one with blackwaters record, is outrageous. We, the people of the U.S., essentially contracted a hit man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigSqwert Posted August 20, 2009 Share Posted August 20, 2009 I thought this thread was about the mysterious black liquid in District 9. My bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted November 11, 2009 Share Posted November 11, 2009 I'm surprised it's been a couple months since this thread's been bumped. Anyway, Acorn did something evil again. At least I'm sure that's how this will be covered. Blackwater Worldwide authorized secret payments of about $1 million to Iraqi officials that were intended to silence their criticism and buy their support after a September 2007 episode in which Blackwater security guards fatally shot 17 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad, according to former company officials. Blackwater approved the cash payments in December 2007, the officials said, as protests over the deadly shootings in Nisour Square stoked long-simmering anger inside Iraq about reckless practices by the security company’s employees. American and Iraqi investigators had already concluded that the shootings were unjustified, top Iraqi officials were calling for Blackwater’s ouster from the country and company officials feared that Blackwater might be refused an operating license it would need to retain its contracts with the State Department and private clients, worth hundreds of millions of dollars annually. Four former Blackwater executives said in interviews that Gary Jackson, who was then the company’s president, had approved the bribes, and the money was sent from Amman, Jordan, where Blackwater maintains an operations hub, to a top manager in Iraq. The executives, though, said they did not know whether the cash was delivered to Iraqi officials or the identities of the potential recipients. Blackwater’s strategy of buying off the government officials, which would have been illegal under American law, created a deep rift inside the company, according to the former executives. They said that Cofer Black, who was then the company’s vice chairman and a former top C.I.A. and State Department official, learned of the plan from another Blackwater manager while he was in Baghdad discussing compensation for families of the shooting victims with United States Embassy officials. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chisoxfn Posted November 11, 2009 Share Posted November 11, 2009 QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Aug 5, 2009 -> 12:37 PM) I miss that show. They really messed up canceling that. It was such a great show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts