Blackwater Predator Contract Ending

**abumaria** · 13-12-2009, 10:13 AM

Blackwater Predator Contract Ending

WASHINGTON – CIA Director Leon Panetta has canceled a contract with the former Blackwater security firm that allowed the company’s operatives to load missiles on Predator drones in Pakistan.
Panetta canceled the contract this year, and the work is being transitioned to government personnel, a person familiar with the contract said Friday. The person spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the classified program.
Blackwater is now known as Xe Services. A spokesman was not immediately available for comment on the contract cancellation. The New York Times reported the contract’s existence in August.
The CIA’s Predator program targets senior Al-Qaeda operatives and Taliban in Pakistan’s tribal area along the border with Afghanistan, but the agency has never confirmed publicly its role in the operation.
Since Jan. 28, 2008, there have been at least 67 suspected US missile strikes into Pakistan, according to Pakistani intelligence officials and witnesses interviewed by the AP after each strike.
News of the cancellation of the contract came in the aftermath of published reports late Thursday that Blackwater security operatives joined CIA agents in “snatch and grab” raids that took place regularly between 2004 and 2006, when violence from the insurgency in Iraq was escalating.
A US official confirmed to AP Thursday that Blackwater provided security and traveled with CIA teams on missions in war zones but emphasized they were not hired to directly participate in sensitive CIA missions.
CIA Director Leon Panetta ordered a review several months ago of the company’s contracts to be sure its guards performed only security-related work, the official said.
Separately, CIA spokesman George Little said Friday that “at this time, Blackwater is not involved in any CIA operations other than in a security or support role.” Xe Services said Friday that Blackwater was not under contract for involvement in the secret raids. – AP

http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index...=2009121356937

**musafeer** · 13-12-2009, 04:47 PM

Originally Posted by abumaria

Blackwater Predator Contract Ending

WASHINGTON – CIA Director Leon Panetta has canceled a contract with the former Blackwater security firm that allowed the company’s operatives to load missiles on Predator drones in Pakistan.
Panetta canceled the contract this year, and the work is being transitioned to government personnel, a person familiar with the contract said Friday. The person spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the classified program.
Blackwater is now known as Xe Services. A spokesman was not immediately available for comment on the contract cancellation. The New York Times reported the contract’s existence in August.
The CIA’s Predator program targets senior Al-Qaeda operatives and Taliban in Pakistan’s tribal area along the border with Afghanistan, but the agency has never confirmed publicly its role in the operation.
Since Jan. 28, 2008, there have been at least 67 suspected US missile strikes into Pakistan, according to Pakistani intelligence officials and witnesses interviewed by the AP after each strike.
News of the cancellation of the contract came in the aftermath of published reports late Thursday that Blackwater security operatives joined CIA agents in “snatch and grab” raids that took place regularly between 2004 and 2006, when violence from the insurgency in Iraq was escalating.
A US official confirmed to AP Thursday that Blackwater provided security and traveled with CIA teams on missions in war zones but emphasized they were not hired to directly participate in sensitive CIA missions.
CIA Director Leon Panetta ordered a review several months ago of the company’s contracts to be sure its guards performed only security-related work, the official said.
Separately, CIA spokesman George Little said Friday that “at this time, Blackwater is not involved in any CIA operations other than in a security or support role.” Xe Services said Friday that Blackwater was not under contract for involvement in the secret raids. – AP

http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index...=2009121356937

It is an eyewash. Nobody should believe what the kuffar says. They were doing such activities thorough Mossad and its subordinates like CIA/MI6/RAW/ISI/Blackwater and co. for long long period. Now some muslims are awaken and realized that most of the so called suicide/car bombings are in fact false flag terrorism. Same time, the kuffar tells us in their control media that they are canceling blackwater contract! Just rename blackwater with bluewater or something else?

**Reckoning** · 14-12-2009, 07:23 AM

The official, who had direct knowledge of the operation, said that employees with Blackwater, now renamed Xe Services, patrol the area round the Shamsi airbase in Baluchistan province

He also confirmed that Blackwater employees help to load laser-guided Hellfire missiles on to CIA-operated drones that target al-Qaida members suspected of hiding in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border regions, confirming information that surfaced in the US media in the summer.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009...-pakistan-base

So Blackwater helps load CIA operated drones and now...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/04/wo.../04drones.html

The White House has authorized an expansion of the C.I.A.’s drone program in Pakistan’s lawless tribal areas, officials said this week, to parallel the president’s decision, announced Tuesday, to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan.

So do you really think they will stop using Blackwater when just a few days ago they decided to greatly expand the drone attacks?