Blackwater's 'Drug War' Bonanza

posted: 11:59 AM, September 19, 2007 by Harkavy

$15 billion of your money up in smoke for under-fire mercenary company, other defense contractors.


Good year for Blackwater: The mercenary army, under fire in Iraq, just landed a huge drug-war contract and claims to be building this "remotely piloted airship vehicle (RPAV)."

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While Blackwater's mercenaries beg for mercy for killing a baby and 19 other people in Baghdad on Sunday, they're already working on another lucrative government contract on yet another foreign adventure: the "war on drugs."

In a major new outsourcing deal reported by only a few outlets, including the Army Times, Blackwater will divvy up a $15 billion pot of government gold, along with four huge defense contractors: Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, and Arinc.

Blackwater claims to be building remote-control spy airships. Purty darn good for an army based in a little North Carolina town — no, it's Currituck, not Mayberry.

Arinc, a Maryland-based major supplier of airplane surveillance and passenger-counting equipment, is particularly stoked about the deal, which it announced on the sixth anniversary of 9/11:

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http://www.villagevoice.com/blogs/bushbeat/archive/2007/09/blackwaters_dru.php

Throw it down, please. I want to read the whole thing.

Soon enough, they're gonna be crashing down our doors w/o warrants as some kind of war on drugs contractor deal.

Americans need to rethink their love of the Jackboot before it stomps their skulls flat.

the election

Now a drug-war contract? Yikes.

He and Ron Paul want to end the drug war..

That will put a stop to this crap and a lot more besides..

Heh,

JUST SAY NO. To any politician who wants to continue the war on drugs!

http://archive.salon.com/politics2000/feature/2000/05/17/trail_mix/index.html

Peace!