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Blackwater is the largest private security
company in Unites States. It has won
contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Given its
nature of work, much of what is surrounded
around the company is mystery and not
known. Yet, there are some controversies
which cannot be underestimated. But what
really is it? Below are top ten facts related to
the organization.


1. GENESIS:
The company, Blackwater, came into being
in1990s with an aim of providing training to
security personnel. Most of its recruits are
taken from US military and policy forces. Back
then, it only aimed to provide training; later it
started a security consulting firm. With the
passage of time, it was asked to give security
contract. Presently, it provides security
services to key organizations and individuals
� most of which are US citizens.


2. COMPANY STRUCTURE:
Blackwater, later renamed as Xe, consists of
nine business units; these units are based on
the type of service they provide. Thus, the
�Training Center� would provide tactics and
weapons training, off-road driving, etc. while
�Maritime Solutions� would provide
protection to maritime units. It is the largest
security services company and trains more
than 40,000 persons in a year.


3. TRAINING GROUND:
Xe�s primary training facility, the �Training
Center� is at North Carolina; later on, it also
got hold of land at Chicago, Mount Carroll
(Illinois.)


4. SERVICES:
Primarily, it provides security services; most
of its units are focused on security � such as
maritime, airspace, or simple ground security.
Additionally, it also a consulting unit and a
development unit which is more related to
construction management. Again, the
emphasis on security is noted.


5. CONTROVERSIES:
Blackwater under controversy in September
2007, when its guards opened fire in Baghdad
killing 17 civilians. This led to severe outcry
not only within Iraq but US government. A
case was filed against the company which
pleaded that its guards were under attack.


6. GOOD SERVICES:
Although Blackwater came into lime light as a
private company fighting war, its services are
beyond the two war-torn countries of
Afghanistan and Iraq. Other than US citizens,
it has provided protection in countries where
the law-enforcement agencies might not be
able to cope with. Moreover, it also did
development work � such as providing
logistic and aerial support during outbreak of
the Hurricane Katrina.


7. LEGAL STATUS:
Blackwater is dependent on the US
government for licensing and contracts. At the
same time, the very intro of the company as
�private security� company results into two
contradictory response: while the nature of
services � the security � has made it into a
controversial organization, its private mandate
provides it immunity for being grilled too
much.


8. RIGHT-WING IDEOLOGY:
One of the heated controversy related to
Blackwater is it being fueled up on right-wing
Christian ideology. That is, while the private
hiring in the company is one face, the other
face is its ideological leanings � which some
has extended, makes it land in countries to
which the extreme right-wing is ideologically
opposed to. Nonetheless, there are also denial
of such linkage and is dismissed as
exaggerated leading only to conspiracy
theories.


9. BLACKWATER AND PAKISTAN:
Blackwater recently came in the limelight for
its being one of the leading companies to
provide security services to organizations and
individuals in Pakistan. Given the fact that it
is a private firm, the US government is not
exactly authorized to speak on its behalf; at
the same time, the controversy surrounding it
raises skepticism.


10. REPUBLICAN CONNECTIONS:
It is often said that the rise of Blackwater
from a small SWAT company to the largest
private company owes to its CEO�s
connection to George W. Bush. In Iraq, it got
a no-bid contract providing security to
provisional government. Given the shared
belief in conservative values, the company
and the party found tandem.

http://www.elistmania.com/10_facts_about_blackwater/

some region will not like this
buhari u don get my vote for another term

one Nigeria we stand

is she alive?

c that engineer cap like choir cap abi dey 1 put song inside the meter ni

is that also apc state? ipob

logarithm:
No 8 is the supposed sacrifice of Isaac

sacrifice of isaac or ismael

true2god:
You are making no point dear. Was it the same angel Gabriel who spoke in the bible spoke to mohammed? This is a very simple question. Who lied concerning the nature and character of angel Gabriel, the bible or the quran\hadith?

the bible, the bible which says holy spirit is God

Two of America’s fastest growing demographics are showing signs of convergence, as Hispanics are increasingly converting to Islam. This traditionally Catholic people are giving up their religion because they’re looking for an orderly identity and increased respect, although their Islamic conversions come with a few major social hurdles. America’s Leaders Hispanics and Islam are the leading growth demographics in the US, according to the 2010 US Census. Islam grew by over half between 2000 and 2010, reaching 2.6 million adherents. This makes it the largest non- Christian religion in the country, whose expansion shows no signs of abating. Official statistics also forecast that whites will no longer be a majority in America by 2043, largely due to the astronomical growth of the Hispanic population. This means that the country will be seeing more Hispanics and Muslims, with the Latina converts bridging the two. Female conversion to Islam has grown to 41% of the total since 2000. Among the Hispanic community, which is 12% of all new converts, Latinas were over half. This means that they form a demographic vanguard for Islamic conversion within the US. So far, New York, New Jersey, Illinois, and Florida are the states boasting of Latino Muslim growth, and not coincidentally, these are also some of the places with the fastest growing rates of Hispanic immigration. Order, Identity, and Respect Latinas are embracing Islam for a variety of factors, no least for the order that it brings to their lives.

Did buhari jail mr jona? Instead of mr fash

Obijulius:
See them...potential suicide bombers and jihadists.

Where are their cowardly men.

Well, there will never be a free Palestine as long as there is no Biafra and a separate state for the Lower Niger Region.

The Nigerian parasites who will fight with their last drop of blood, are the same goats who want a free Palestinian state.

NEVER!!!!!!!

The Middle East already enough failed and lawless jihadi states.




See them below: Children of the religion of PISS...There will never be a free Palestinian state. Even your Holy Land Mecca is up for grabs.

mumu soon we go librate palestines from israel with Allahs help


yes on Biafra that one na ur imagination
even 50yrs we are still 2geda
1 nigeria we stand

Ok i go tell my daddy h

Ok i go tell my daddy

@Op is this ur skul?

FG make u go print another ballot paper for this OBA election hoooo
we need jega in dis election but not orubebe

Another step to fight corruption

sai ambode
kai jimi agbaje

They are laughing at biafruad

Shey na fashola be im in-law,bcs na fashola i see for dis pix or OP dey dream

But PDP y are u so bias during d campaign they did't caution fayose and co now they want APC to caution lai muhammed,na joke u dey do

Who no go die? But

rip
to
the
delegate

Who no go die? But

rip

Chai e don become busness?
That is kind tin wey pastor like pass

FTC i no shout but if na some childish guy or gel dem go go hire DJ

op y can't u render d victim some help before posting it here

Is not easy to ba a general

PDP don blow, chai

Over 3,400 members of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ondo State, who were loyalists of the former candidate of the party in the October 20, 2012 governorship election in the state and now a member of the All Progressives Congress, Chief Olusola Oke, have defected to the APC.
At the event held in Igbokoda, the headquarters of Ilaje Local Government Area of the state, on Saturday, the defectors said they took the decision to leave the PDP because of the mismanagement that the party had plunged the country into in the past 16 years of its ruling.
Addressing the defectors, Oke, who decamped to the APC shortly after the last Presidential election, said that the time had come for all Ilaje sons and daughters to dump the PDP, which he said had brought untold hardship to the people in the country.
He said, “I am ashamed of being a member of a party that has plunged the country into calamity. With the revelation coming out now, I have to apologise to my teeming supporters and Nigerians that my former party brought Nigeria to her knees.”
Oke, a former National Legal Adviser of the PDP, declared that the change that had taken root at the federal level would soon berth in the state in the next year governorship election and the local government later in the year when elevations would be held for the third tier of government.
He said, “The change that had taken over Nigeria will come to Ondo State. This is the time for change in Ondo State. It is not good for this state to be in opposition to the Federal Government and hence, this state must be in tandem with the government at the centre. We want to take over the government both at the state and local government levels.”
A former leader of the PDP in the riverine areas of Ilaje, Prince Glory Okuntade, while speaking on behalf of other defectors, said they were leaving the PDP because they had nothing to show their teeming supporters in the area in terms of development that their membership of the PDP had brought to them.


http://www.punchng.com/news/olusola-okes-supporters-dump-pdp-for-apc/

Haaaaaaa y this PDP

Mynd44:
Msheeeeew

hater are liable to die young

That is change agent sai baba

sai general

Good president

Is not up to 6month u ar now selling ur property,shey d stolen money don finish ni?
.but i will like if APC buy it

Apc have good plan for this country