Blackwater Company in eric prince

Blackwater Company was founded as a small company with six employees, but now it has become one of the largest private security companies in the United States, with more than 1, employees working in Iraq alone, and the rapid rise of Blackwater is mainly due to war factors.

After the "9.11" incident, Blackwater Company's business was booming, and its telephone was almost smashed, making a net profit of $1 billion. Prince is recruiting everywhere, and there are many famous people under him, such as former counter-terrorism director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Christopher Black, and former director of the US Department of Defense, Joseph schmitz.

Today, Blackwater's strength, as an American congressman said, can overthrow the governments of many countries.

According to the investigation in Blackwater Insider, Blackwater has deployed more than 2,3 private soldiers in various countries (including the United States). The database stores the data of 21, former members of special forces, retired soldiers and retired law enforcement officers, and can call them to participate in military operations at any time; It has more than 2 aircraft, including helicopter gunships and a surveillance airship unit. Headquartered in Moyock, North Carolina, it covers an area of 7, acres and is the largest private military facility in the world. Training tens of thousands of federal and local law enforcement personnel and soldiers from "friendly countries" every year. Blackwater has its own intelligence department and employs former senior military and intelligence officials as the company's top executives. It holds government contracts worth more than $5 million-not including secret projects operated for American intelligence agencies or private companies and foreign governments.

Since 23, the White House has outsourced the task of protecting the most senior American civilian officials in Iraq to Blackwater. Different from the meagre salaries of US military personnel in active service, the annual salary of Blackwater security guards in Iraq is more than 1, US dollars, and the standard daily salary of private security guards rises to 6 US dollars. As The Times of London said: "In Iraq, the hot business after the war is not oil, but security." Chris hedges, former director of the Middle East Branch of The New York Times, commented that the rise of the Guards heralded "the last stage of the collapse of American democracy".

On September 16th, 27, blackwater company security guards shot and killed 17 Iraqi civilians while escorting an American diplomat in Baghdad, the capital of Iraq (known as "Blackwater Incident"), which aroused public outrage in the world. The Iraqi government immediately revoked Blackwater's business license in Iraq, the US Department of Defense asked the military to strictly discipline security companies in Iraq, and the United Nations also called for a lawsuit against illegal security companies.

these voices ended in vain. Eric prince kept using the words: the behavior was "appropriate" and "legal".

On February 13th, 29, faced with unanimous condemnation from the outside world, Blackwater adopted a retreat strategy. Gary Jackson, CEO, said that the company would no longer actively seek new private security contracts, and its business focus had shifted from security services to training and logistics. Their official website lists a large number of training photos, and the men and women with strong bodies have calm faces, as if they were just bodyguards who have advanced scientific weapons and training methods in peacetime to maintain the safety of Americans. However, their slogan is very eye-catching: "Today's training is for tomorrow's challenges."