Mr. Prince founded the private security firm Blackwater, which was renamed Xe Services after Blackwater contractors were convicted of killing Iraqi civilians.
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Prince renamed the Blackwater security company and sold it in 2010, but he recently opened a company called Blackwater USA, which sells ammunition, silencers and knives.
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Last onscreen interaction: "Blackwater" (Season 2, episode 9) In some alternate universe, Sansa went on the run with her unlikely protector during the Battle of the Blackwater.
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Constellis Holdings, formerly called Blackwater, is infamous for its role in the Nisour Square Massacre, during which Blackwater guards killed 17 Iraqi civilians and injured 13 more.
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Blackwater founder says the EU should privatize border control Blackwater founder says the EU should privatize border control Erik Prince founded the private military contractor once known as Blackwater, which became notorious during the Iraq War for a series of scandals, including a 2007 massacre that left 17 Iraqis dead.
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The Blackwater contractor, Nicholas A. Slatten, is one of several Blackwater contractors charged in the killing of 17 Iraqis and the wounding of 20 more on a Baghdad street.
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Also involved in the new company is Erik Prince, who founded Blackwater, the private security firm that was renamed Xe Services after Blackwater contractors were convicted of killing Iraqi civilians.
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Davos in the Battle of Blackwater, and Catelyn Stark vs.
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Anwar Mismar via Facebook // BLACKWATER FIRST, PFIZER SECOND, AMERICA LAST.
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Erik Prince, the Blackwater founder, denied involvement through his spokesperson.
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Blackwater Bay hasn't seen any action in a few seasons.
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Blackwater founder Erik Prince remains a controversial figure in American politics.
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Recall his defense of King's Landing at the Battle of Blackwater.
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Another new category, Blackwater, encouraged photographers to go diving at night.
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Griffin is serving his sentence at Blackwater River Correctional Facility in Milton.
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Blackwater was later sold and is now operating as Virginia-based Academi.
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The four Blackwater contractors were convicted in 2014 after a lengthy trial.
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It's far more Opeth than Origin, but we're talking Blackwater Park here.
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He's become the super-rich head of a Blackwater-type paramilitary operation.
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In 2007, Blackwater employees shot and killed 17 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad.
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But if you ask Prince, he'd say Blackwater was unmarred by scandal.
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WaPo looked at the Chinese operations of Erik Prince, the Blackwater founder.
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Dragonstone is on the opposite side of the Blackwater Bay from King's Landing.
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That great third season demonstrated that it learned the lessons from "Blackwater" masterfully.
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These included Erik Prince, the co-founder of Blackwater, the private security company.
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The good news is that Ser Bronn of the Blackwater is back, baby!
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In Wyoming, however, Blackwater founder Erik Prince has expressed interest in challenging Barrasso.
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The Blackwater founder worked as an intern for the California Republican in 1990.
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A single road, North Blackwater Lane, leads in and out of the community.
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Meanwhile, her brother Erik Prince owns the Blackwater firm, which essentially sells mercenaries.
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The Blackwater murder trial ends with a hung jury; 20-Gay-Teen reaches India.
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His past students, he says, include New York police officers and Blackwater security contractors.
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The Battle of the Blackwater in season two was filmed on the West Pier.
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Check out the amber-colored waterfall at Blackwater Falls State Park in West Virginia.
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Until then, no security contractor was more powerful than Blackwater in the post-Sept.
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"Blackwater" became one of the show's most popular episodes and helped catalyze its popularity.
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Blackwater was renamed Xe Services two years after the incident that sparked international outrage.
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I don't want a new generation of Blackwater thugs killing civilians in our name.
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In a moment of incisive strategic thinking, Tyrion used wildfire during the Battle of Blackwater.
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Another Valyrian family, the Velaryons, had already settled on another island in Blackwater Bay, Driftmark.
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He survived Blackwater Bay, his own death sentence, and a life spent in Cersei's company.
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Tyrion won Blackwater against the odds, even if he didn't get the credit for it.
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Who was there: Erik Prince, the founder of private security firm Blackwater, arranged the meeting.
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The Battle of Blackwater was raging, and Cersei thought her side was likely to lose.
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In 2007, four Blackwater security personnel were accused of killing 14 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad.
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Following Steve Bannon's recommendation, Blackwater founder Erik D. Prince is also involved in the conversation now.
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That's according to Erik Prince, founder of the Blackwater security firm, who is pushing the plan.
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It raises a host of ethical concerns Blackwater contractors have a long record of questionable behavior.
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Prince sold Blackwater in 2010 after a string of controversies involving its security work in Iraq.
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Nicholas Slatten of Sparta, Tennessee, was a sniper working for the private Blackwater Worldwide security company.
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Blackwater said its convoy defended itself, but witnesses testified that the contractors opened fire without provocation.
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Prince, who happens to be Betsy DeVos' brother, is the founder of Blackwater, now renamed Academi.
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Aside from "Hardhome," I haven't been that into the show's battles ("Blackwater" is overrated, fight me).
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That type of car had been flagged by Blackwater intelligence analysts as a potential car bomb.
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Blackwater, now known as Academi, has come under fire for its role in the Iraq War.
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It's a familiar role for Prince, the former head of the infamous private security firm Blackwater.
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In the fall of 2007, Blackwater contractors in Baghdad shot and killed 14 Iraqis, including children.
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From Blackwater to Hardhome and beyond, we've ranked the top battles in "Game of Thrones"history.
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Former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon is pushing Blackwater founder Erik Prince to challenge Sen.
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At the Battle of Blackwater Bay, I got shot in the back by a Lannister arrow.
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The darkest episode of the series to date is "Blackwater," the penultimate episode of season two.
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Black is co-founder of the private equity firm Apollo Global Management, which in 2016 acquired Constellis, the rebranded private security firm Blackwater, notorious for its role in the 2007 Nisour Square Massacre, when Blackwater guards killed at least 14 Iraqi civilians and injured many more.
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During the wildfire-filled Battle of Blackwater, he backs away from fighting – and eventually quits the Knightsguard.
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Cersei has eight small blocks in King's Landing proper and also seven small blocks in Blackwater Bay.
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How ISIS capitalizes on horrors of Blackwater and Abu Ghraib CNN's Hamdi Alkhshali contributed to this report.
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In 2017 Prince told the Financial Times newspaper that FSG was not a Chinese version of Blackwater.
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" ON BLACKWATER FOUNDER ERIK PRINCE PLAN TO PRIVATIZE AFGHANISTAN WAR "I'm not reviewing an Erik Prince plan.
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Remember when you defended King's Landing against the invasion of Stannis at the Battle of the Blackwater?
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Infamous before her, because he founded Blackwater, the infamous mercenary company, who has employees ... Very wealthy family.
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According to prosecutors, the four were among seven Blackwater employees who opened fire in the traffic circle.
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Its Blackwater line resumed operations on Monday and its Newlands line is expected to open on Thursday.
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Prince's Blackwater, a private military contractor, was a controversial presence alongside US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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" ON BLACKWATER FOUNDER ERIK PRINCE PLAN TO PRIVATIZE AFGHANISTAN WAR "I'm not reviewing an Erik Prince plan.
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Prince, the Blackwater founder, has denied that he was representing the Trump transition team during the meeting.
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Erik Prince, the founder of private security company Blackwater, is set to host a fundraiser for Rep.
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We saw it in 2019, when the Blackwater founder Erik Prince sold his warfighting expertise to China.
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Erik Prince, founder of the notorious private security firm Blackwater, has another idea: Just pay me instead.
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Catch Public Eye at these shows:Aug 22 - Portland at Star BarAug 29 - Portland at The Blackwater Bar
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Prince, founder of the private security company Academi — formerly Blackwater — is the brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.
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Former Blackwater CBO MEADOWS: Well so what you see is Bob Mueller continuing to grab and collect information.
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Need I remind him that we spent hours together in the Red Keep during the Battle of Blackwater?
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The men, employees of the former Blackwater security firm, were ambushed and killed by an angry Iraqi mob.
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In March 2004, four American security contractors from the Blackwater company were killed in an ambush in Falluja.
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"Blackwater," directed by The Descent's Neil Marshall, instantly became one of Game of Thrones' biggest and best episodes.
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Maybe Dany needs to poison someone before she finally sails across the Blackwater Bay and attacks King's Landing.
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John Barrasso, former Blackwater CEO and founder Erik Prince, confirmed Wednesday night he is actively considering a bid.
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It started, as many adventures have, in the town of Blackwater on the shores of Flat Iron Lake.
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Rumors have swirled that the character may be returning, though he'll likely be somewhere other than Blackwater Bay.
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Then there's Erik Prince, founder of the private militia group Blackwater and brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.
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These efforts include an attempt to build a private, mercenary air force with help from Blackwater-era associates.
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He didn't disclose that Nader, an adviser to al-Nahyan and former consultant for Blackwater, was also present.
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In 2007, Blackwater employees shot and killed 17 Iraqi civilians at Nisour Square in Baghdad, sparking international outrage.
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Blackwater founder Erik Prince may have evaded U.S. sanctions on Venezuela, two senior U.S. officials reportedly said Monday.
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The government had hired Blackwater Security to escort State Department officials through a chaotic war zone in Iraq.
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There was the controversy over the op-ed/press release by Erik Prince of the security contractor Blackwater.
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Zach Woods: You can also invest in classic American companies, Blackwater, Halliburton ... It doesn't all have to be tech.
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Bannon has reportedly spoken to Friess recently along with another potential Republican challenger to Barrasso, Blackwater founder Erik Prince.
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Three other Blackwater contractors were found guilty in 2014 on charges of voluntary manslaughter, attempted manslaughter and other counts.
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ERIK PRINCE - The former head of military contractor Blackwater USA worked informally with Trump's transition team after the election.
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Blackwater Falls State Park (above) attracts hikers and other outdoor enthusiasts; towns like nearby Davis, W.Va., cater to them.
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Lawyers for the defendants argued that, as State Department contractors, the Blackwater guards were not covered by that law.
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Prince, founder of the private security company originally known as Blackwater, is the brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.
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House Baratheon is the biggest loser — Renly died, Stannis suffered a major defeat in the Battle of the Blackwater.
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It managed stunning set pieces — the Battle of the Blackwater, the Red Wedding — but it was grounded in ideas.
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Another dangling thread concerns Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater and a major financial supporter of Trump's presidential campaign.
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Prince has since sold Blackwater (which renamed itself) and gone out in search of new lines of mercenary business.
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Blackwater, which was founded by a former Navy SEAL, was later sold and now operates as Virginia-based Academi.
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The event's website has featured Ann Coulter, Steve Bannon, noted anti-Islam crusader Pam Geller, and Blackwater founder Erik Prince.
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Blackwater is a few miles from Great Yarmouth, one of the five most enthusiastically leave-voting towns in the country.
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"Blackwater" became one of the show's most admired and popular episodes, and it drew even more viewers to the series.
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The mercenaries involved reportedly belonged to Wagner, the Russian counterpart to American private security force Academi — once known as Blackwater.
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However, a mining company employee with operations on Aurizon's Blackwater line told Reuters that floodwaters were "running harder than predicted".
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This idea is being advocated by Erik Prince, the founder of the controversial security company Blackwater (now known as Academi).
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Other photos showed water rushing Thursday night over the dam and Lakeside Drive, which separates College Lake and Blackwater Creek.
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Blackwater, which Prince founded in 1997, was contracted by the U.S. State Department to provide security during the Iraq War.
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On a June morning, packs of cyclists were flocking to Blackwater Bikes, a prominent bike shop along the main drag.
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One of the Blackwater employees involved was convicted of murder in December and three others have been convicted of manslaughter.
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Erik Prince, the private security contractor and the former head of Blackwater, arranged the meeting, which took place on Aug.
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"Blackwater " became one of the show's most admired and popular episodes, and it drew even more viewers to the series.
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After selling his stake in Blackwater in 20133, Mr. Prince mustered an army-for-hire for the United Arab Emirates.
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Was he concerned about Trump outsourcing the war in Afghanistan to Erik Prince and Blackwater, as Trump had reportedly considered?
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Company Shed in Mersea Island in the Blackwater estuary is a 30-year-old seafood restaurant run by Caroline Haward.
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In a particularly grim moment of the Iraq War in 2007, Blackwater contractors killed 14 unarmed citizens in a public square.
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Remember when these guys were just cracking open cold ones together and fighting Stannis Baratheon (Stephen Dillane) on the Blackwater Bay?
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The appeals court also ordered the three other Blackwater guards to be resentenced, saying their 30-year terms were too long.
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Washington (CNN)Former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince is publicly touting a proposal to shake up the US military strategy in Afghanistan.
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He was assigned at the time to a team of Blackwater contractors to guard a fleet of heavily armed tactical trucks.
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The amber-colored water of the Blackwater Falls State Park waterfall in West Virginia is the main attraction for this park.
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From Monsanto to Philip Morris to Blackwater, ethically challenged companies always seem like they're trying to blend in with the wallpaper.
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Erik Prince — a Trump donor and founder of the private security firm Blackwater — also went to Trump Tower at least twice.
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Mr. Slatten and three other Blackwater Worldwide contractors had been found guilty of murder in 2014 and faced lengthy prison sentences.
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Mr. Nader and Mr. Zamel enlisted Erik Prince, the former head of Blackwater and an adviser to the Trump transition team.
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At the Battle of Blackwater, she uses it, again in a reasonably controlled way, to sink her opponent Stannis Baratheon's ships.
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BLACKWATER FOUNDER ERIK PRINCE HELD SECRET TALKS IN CARACAS WITH VENEZUELA VICE PRESIDENT DELCY RODRIGUEZ LAST MONTH - SOURCES FAMILIAR WITH MATTER
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Torn between two Lannisters and on the Dragon Queen's shit list, the end may be near for Bronn of the Blackwater.
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Mr. Prince made a name for himself as the founder of Blackwater, a private military contractor that did business in Iraq.
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But Prince's old outfit, Blackwater, which he left after it was sold in 2010, isn't exactly remembered for its humane practices.
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Two sculptures of fantastic mythical creatures contain touches of dark humor: "Blackwater Creature II" (2019) is a creepily whimsical centipede made from branches, feathers, horse hair, and bronze baby shoes; "Blackwater Creature I" (2019) is a dangling amalgam of horsehair and resin that resembles the Addams' Family's Cousin Itt and casts a shadow evoking a lynched figure.
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It had previously forecast Blackwater to come back on line this week, while there is no change to the Goonyella time table.
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A Blackwater helicopter flies close to black smoke billowing from a fire in an area in central Baghdad on March 3, 2005.
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Erik Prince, the brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and founder of the controversial security firm Blackwater, is one prominent alumnus. Sen.
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Erik Prince, founder of the security firm Blackwater and brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, proposed privatizing the entire war in Afghanistan.
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Squint and you'll see formations like the Fingers and Blackwater Bay that are important to the plot and characters in the series.
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Already, he had spoken with Erik Prince, the Blackwater security contractor, and GOP mega-donor Foster Friess about running against Republican Sen.
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Bannon is also looking to convince former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince, the brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, to challenge Wyoming Sen.
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Academi stressed it's no longer the same as Blackwater and distanced itself from Prince in a statement to VICE News in 2015.
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Mr. Prince said that Mr. Nader was unsuccessful in getting contracts, and that senior Blackwater officials did not work directly with him.
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Blackwater, the company he founded, made a fortune during the Iraq War but got into a lot of trouble along the way.
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"My company's history is a proud tale of performance excellence and driven entrepreneurialism," he wrote in his book defending Blackwater, Civilian Warriors.
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When the smoke cleared from "Blackwater," season two's landmark episode-long conflict, television's depiction of mass violence would never be the same.
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Four ex-Blackwater contractors were sentenced to 30 years in prison in 2015 for their role in the 2007 massacre in Iraq.
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The central figure is Prince, the Blackwater founder as well as a Trump donor and the brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.
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Prince soared to notoriety after Blackwater employees in 2007 shot and killed Iraqi civilians in Baghdad's Nisour Square during the Iraq war.
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The episode ended on a cliffhanger as Jaime was pushed clear of a burst of dragonfire into the dark, murky Blackwater Rush.
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She ditches her whalebone corset for an oversize coat to go fossil-hunting in the Blackwater marshes of Essex with her son.
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Last appearance: 8.4, "The Last of the Starks"Missandei was controversially captured by Euron Greyjoy's fleet following an ambush at Blackwater Bay.
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Prince is one of the shadiest people on the planet and oversaw Blackwater when its mercenaries were indiscriminately committing war crimes in Iraq.
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Emails from that summer show Johnson trying to set up a meeting between Blackwater founder Erik Prince and Arkansas Republican donor Steve Stephens.
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Dragonstone is an island castle on the Blackwater Bay, site of that intense naval battle in season 2 that gave Tyrion his scar.
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Almost exactly 10 years ago, three Blackwater employees allegedly killed 14 civilians in Iraq in what became known as the Nisour Square Massacre.
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A former Navy SEAL, Prince was the founder of the controversial private security firm Blackwater who entered Trump's orbit during the 2016 campaign.
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Blackwater founder Erik Prince has urged Trump to privatize the war, sending private contractors to "advise Afghan combat forces," according to USA Today.
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Frontier Services Group Frontier Services Group is a private security and logistics firm founded by Erik Prince, the ex-head of Blackwater. 75.
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Blackwater is the second-busiest line servicing the Queensland coking coal industry and is the first scheduled to be brought back into operation.
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Former Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government was in power during most of the war in Afghanistan, at a time when Blackwater services proliferated.
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At the time of the shooting, Blackwater was among the most powerful American security contractors working in war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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But did he return home to her after the Battle of Blackwater to share her grief over the death of their only son?
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In 2014, Blackwater security guards were found guilty of killing 17 Iraqis and injuring 20 in a shooting at Nisour Square in 2007.
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Her brother, Erik Prince, founded Blackwater USA, a private security contractor whose guards were convicted of killing 14 civilians in Baghdad in 2007.
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Blackwater Worldwide founder Erik Prince and DynCorp owner Stephen Feinberg have floated proposals to use contractors instead of U.S. military forces in Afghanistan.
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But for the Native American community to incorporate the Blackwater Trading Post with federally protected tribal lands, they need to get congressional approval.
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He founded the U.S. military contractor formerly called Blackwater that drew international scrutiny and faced lawsuits for shootings and other conduct in Iraq.
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Neither the White House, nor the new security company Prince founded after Blackwater, Frontier Services Group, returned requests for comment from VICE News.
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He proposed replacing some US troops with private military contractors -- like the fighters employed by his former company, Blackwater, now known as Academi.
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As Task & Purpose points out, Blackwater and DynCorp have long histories of operating in the Middle East, and both have been hounded by scandal.
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Aurizon said on Friday it was working on "alternative routing options" such as moving coal onto the northern Newlands line or south via Blackwater.
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On Game of Thrones, actor Jerome Flynn played mercenary-turned-nobleman Ser Bronn of the Blackwater, whose only true north was gettin' that money.
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Prince, the former head the infamous private security firm Blackwater, also proposed installing an American "viceroy" to run the country and oversee the mercenaries.
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Washington (CNN)Erik Prince, the founder of the controversial private security firm Blackwater, makes a number of appearances in special counsel Robert Mueller's report.
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TO REACH Blackwater you take the Yarmouth Road out of Norwich, passing housing estates, a shimmering glass business park and a tangle of roundabouts.
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Though the analogy to Blackwater is hardly perfect, we do have a recent and sordid history of private security contractors advancing sensitive government responsibilities.
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The Blackwater team was sent on September 16, 2007 to provide evacuation support when a car bomb went off in Baghdad near a diplomat.
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One Reddit user explained that the Hound has also been reborn of salt at the Battle of Blackwater in season 2 of the series.
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Aurizon expects the line to be closed until May, leaving miners on that line chasing capacity on Blackwater and the most northern line, Newlands.
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Three other former Blackwater agents -- convicted on manslaughter charges stemming and each receiving 30 years -- will be resentenced for their roles in the deaths.
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He was working for Blackwater (or Academi or whatever they're calling themselves these days) and lying about being at an ashram or whatever. Fine.
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In 2007, Blackwater contractors killed 17 civilians in Baghdad, Iraq, in one of the most controversial massacres in the American war in that country.
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He proposed replacing US troops with private military contractors -- like the fighters employed by his former company, Blackwater, which is now known as Academi.
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Erik Prince is a former Navy SEAL who founded Blackwater (now Academi), a private military contractor prosecuted for its conduct during the Iraq War.
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The dragons were glorified lizards and the first big combat sequence, the Battle of the Blackwater, didn't come until the end of Season 2.
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But President Ashraf Ghani has refused to meet with Mr. Prince, the founder of Blackwater, the security firm infamous for killing civilians in Iraq.
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But, of course, his company (renamed several times after "Blackwater" became associated with lethal mayhem in Iraq) exists to make a profit — for Prince.
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In one notorious episode, several employees of Blackwater, a private military firm now called Academi, were accused of killing 14 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad.
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Prince is best known for founding Blackwater, a private US defense contractor that came under intense scrutiny and criticism for its actions in Iraq.
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But in 2017, a federal appeals court ordered that the three Blackwater guards to be resentenced, saying their 30-year terms were too long.
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While the return of the Blackwater line will start replenishing coking coal supplies, the majority of coal in the region travels on the Goonyella line.
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Taking place in the dry wheat fields near Blackwater, the 55,000 men Aegon faced kindly lined up to become the human equivalent of dragonfire kindling.
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The company said that its cyclone-damaged Blackwater coal haulage line - the second major rail corridor after Goonyella - would reopen on Monday at reduced capacity.
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The Blackwater line is south of Goonyella in an area still subject to rising water levels, as floodwaters make their way through local river systems.
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The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit ruled on Friday that Slatten should have been tried separately from the other Blackwater contractors involved.
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Blackwater founder Erik Prince in December detailed to investigators a January meeting he held with a Russian banker in the Seychelles, brokered by the UAE.
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On Wednesday evening, The Washington Post reported that special counsel Robert Mueller is zeroing in on Blackwater founder and all-around bad guy Erik Prince.
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The publication reported that private security contractor Erik Prince, the former head of Blackwater and brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, arranged the August meeting.
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One scheme, promoted by Mr Bannon and devised by Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater, a controversial security firm, involved replacing American troops with mercenaries.
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Others like Blackwater founder Erik Prince and onetime White House national security adviser Michael Flynn were also asked in the documents requests about such contacts.
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Second, Blackwater, now known as Academi, has a fraught history with human rights following its employees' involvement in the killings of unarmed civilians in Iraq.
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Also in attendance was a Russian investor connected to Putin and Erik Prince, a founder of security firm Blackwater, who advised Trump during the transition.
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Remember that the Mad King has stored a ton of wildfire, the same magic Tyrion used to devastate Stannis' fleet at Blackwater, under the city.
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Historically, the penultimate episode of the season is where all the crazy shit goes down: The Red Wedding, Ned Stark's beheading, the Battle of Blackwater.
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Dickinson also called out Erik Prince, the former owner of Blackwater (and brother of Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos), who has adamantly denied any wrongdoing.
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Also in attendance was a Russian investor connected to President Vladimir Putin, and Erik Prince, a founder of Blackwater who advised Trump during the transition.
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Erik Prince, the founder of the private military company Blackwater, has been privately and publicly shopping a plan to replace most U.S. troops with contractors.
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In November Erik Prince, an ardent Trump supporter who founded Blackwater Security Consulting (now called Academi), dined in Caracas with Delcy Rodríguez, Venezuela's vice-president.
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Abu Dhabi was the grazing patch for Erik Prince, the scandal-tarnished founder of Blackwater, who helped the UAE set up an army of Colombian mercenaries.
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One of Castle's friends, Billy Russo (Ben Barnes) sets up Blackwater-esque military contracts; another, Curtis Hoyle (Jason R. Moore), runs a support group for veterans.
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Prince is the brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, the founder of private security firm Blackwater, and he is also a supporter of President Donald Trump.
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One scheme, promoted by Mr Bannon and devised by Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater, a controversial security firm, involved replacing American troops with 83,28 mercenaries.
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Nicholas Slatten was convicted of killing Ahmed Haithem Ahmed Al Rubia'y, one of 14 civilians slain when Blackwater guards opened fire in Nisur Square on Sept.
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Somehow, among everything going on, Euron, the drunk cockroach of Westeros, finds Jaime and they have an extremely athletic tussle on the banks of Blackwater Bay.
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A second thread of interest worth watching relates to a secret meeting in the Seychelles between Blackwater founder Erik Prince and a Russian banker in 2017.
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Because of its grisly power we think of the Red Wedding as a standalone episode in itself, like "Blackwater"; it's more like "Hardhome", a half-standalone.
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In 2015, an American judge sentenced four former Blackwater security guards to lengthy prison terms for murdering 14 Iraqi civilians, including a nine-year-old boy.
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Similar to Bronn singing "The Rains of Castamere" before the Battle of the Blackwater in season two, the whole thing was more than a little ominous.
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In 1997, Mr. Prince founded Blackwater as a private, for-profit force to aid the military, and he is wealthy enough to self-finance his race.
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Blackwater said the convoy Slatten was part of came under attack and had defended itself, but witnesses testified that the contractors had opened fire without provocation.
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Her brother, Erik D. Prince, founded and was chief executive of the private security firm Blackwater, a controversial contractor for American personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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With his flashy lifestyle and generally dickish behavior, Evan Spiegel rivals Ser Bronn of the Blackwater — whose allegiance is pliable — as kind of your basic asshole.
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Blackwater was hired to protect American diplomats in Iraq, while other contractors were used in support functions, such as providing food and supplies to U.S. troops.
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Gail: It's an idea that's been promoted by Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater — the private security force that became infamous for killing civilians in Iraq.
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The Battle of Blackwater Bay, between Stannis Baratheon's fleet and the Lannisters' King's Landing army, is fought at night, which accounts for the episode's permeating darkness.
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It was the most combat effective mercenary corporation in recent history—much more so than Blackwater, et al—but also demonstrates the power of private military companies.
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During the Battle of the Blackwater, Sandor snuck into Sansa's room in the Red Keep and offered to take Sansa, whom he called "Little Bird," with him.
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The penultimate episode of the second season, "Blackwater," devoted the entire hour for the first time to a single battle, capped with a spectacular explosion of wildfire.
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Blackwater, which was founded by former Navy SEAL Erik Prince, the brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, was later sold and now operates as Virginia-based Academi.
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Joe Schmitz, a lawyer, is a former Defense Department Inspector General and a former executive with the Blackwater security firm, associated with the killing of Iraqi civilians.
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Her brother is Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater, the troubled private security contractor that was awarded billions in United States government contracts in the Middle East.
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Prince was a pioneer in private military contracting during the Iraq war, when the U.S. government hired Blackwater primarily to provide security for State Department operations there.
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That was one lesson from the Season 7 premiere of "Game of Thrones," as the story's two most powerful queens plotted on opposite sides of Blackwater Bay.
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There was an entire component that looked at how Middle East countries potentially tried to improperly influence Trump's team, perhaps through emissaries like Blackwater founder Erik Prince.
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The founder of the private military company Blackwater is urging President Trump to reconsider his new Afghanistan strategy and instead use contractors in place of U.S. soldiers.
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On March 31, 2014, four American contractors working for Blackwater were killed, their bodies burned and strung up on a bridge in the Iraqi city of Fallujah.
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Prince founded a company formerly known as Blackwater that he was forced to sell after some of its guards were convicted of killing 14 unarmed Iraqi civilians.
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In August 2016, Nader met with Donald Trump Jr. to offer help to Trump's campaign alongside Blackwater founder Erik Prince and Israeli social media specialist Joel Zamel.
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The House intelligence panel also released on Wednesday a transcript of testimony last week of Erik Prince, a Trump supporter and founder of the Blackwater military contractor.
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A heavily armed, four-truck Blackwater Worldwide convoy the men were traveling in had been trying to clear a path for U.S. diplomats after a nearby car bomb.
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The mostly naval battle of Blackwater, the sieges of Castle Black and Riverrun, the Dunkirk-like evacuation of Hardhome: none of these were traditional meetings in the field.
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Erik Prince, the former US Navy SEAL officer who founded the mercenary group Blackwater USA, was questioned in Congress over a meeting with a Russian in the Seychelles.
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On the boat south to Dragonstone/King's Landing — remember, they're on opposite sides of Blackwater Bay — Varys takes Sansa's question a step further during a meeting with Tyrion.
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The closest thing Game of Thrones has ever had to a comedic troupe: Tyrion Lannister (Peter Dinklage), Podrick Payne (Daniel Portman), and Bronn of the Blackwater (Jerome Flynn).
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John Nicholson — was staunchly opposed by Bannon, who latched onto an idea by former Blackwater founder Erik Prince to send private mercenaries to Afghanistan to replace US soldiers.
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A request was also made for a Blackwater security contractor found guilty in a deadly shooting, killing dozens of unarmed Iraqis in 2007, per the New York Times.
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Violence erupted Sunday night as protesters confronted police at Blackwater Bridge on Highway 1806 in a melee that resulted in 167 injuries, according to the Indigenous Environmental Network.
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Blackwater lost a $1 billion contract with the State Department to protect American diplomatic personnel in 2009, after the Iraqi government refused to renew the company's operating license.
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According to Reuters, the company, which specializes in the exploitation of mobile phones, has changed its name several times, much like the private military contractor Blackwater (now Academi).
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The House Intelligence Committee will hear from former Blackwater chief Erik Prince on Thursday as the committee continues its investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
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"Our understanding is the reopening of the rail line ... is likely to be early next week at best," the source, who requested anonymity, said of Aurizon's Blackwater line.
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Cover image: Employees working for the company previously known as Blackwater were accused of massacring civilians in Iraq (Canadian Press) This article originally appeared on VICE News CA.
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The man was perhaps in his early fifties, his pale eyebrows and wire-rimmed, almost invisible glasses shaded by a baseball cap with the Blackwater logo on it.
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In Wyoming, Mr. Bannon is pushing Erik Prince, the founder of the military contractor Blackwater, to run against Senator John Barrasso, a member of Mr. McConnell's leadership team.
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Blackwater agreed in 2010 to pay $42 million in fines for hundreds of violations of U.S. export rules, including making unauthorized proposals to train troops in southern Sudan.
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Mr. Prince, the former head of Blackwater Worldwide and the brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, has at times served as an informal adviser to Trump administration officials.
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A federal appeals court rejected the long sentences given to three military contractors for the 2007 shootout that made Blackwater a symbol of unchecked U.S. power in Iraq.
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Blackwater lost its $1 billion contract with the State Department to protect American diplomatic personnel in 2009, after the Iraqi government refused to renew the company's operating license.
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He is an international traveler, a wealthy businessman with high-profile contacts, a former Navy SEAL with overseas experience and founder of the controversial private security firm Blackwater.
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Companies involved in deals include U.S. military security services business Constellis, formerly known as Blackwater when it was founded in 1997 by former U.S. Navy SEAL officer Erik Prince.
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The emergence of such groups revived talk in Russia of legalising Russian PMCs to create companies in the vein of American security contractors such as Academi (formerly called Blackwater).
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Washington (CNN)Erik Prince, founder of the controversial military contracting firm Blackwater, doesn't think President Donald Trump's conventional Afghanistan strategy of "more troops and more money" will be enough.
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Afghan officials have rejected a proposal by Blackwater founder Erik Prince to have his private military contracting company take over the training and advising of the Afghan armed forces.
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The senators also requested documents containing the name "Erik Prince" and "Seychelles," suggesting the investigators are interested in a reported secret meeting said to involve Blackwater founder Erik Prince.
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Since "Blackwater" in Season 2, Game of Thrones battles only continued to raise the stakes, redefining what we thought possible for cinematic war experiences (whether in TV or film).
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She has also represented Sam Clovis, the former Trump campaign co-chairman, and Erik Prince, the founder of the security contractor Blackwater and an informal adviser to Mr. Trump.
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The guards were traveling in a heavily armed, four-truck Blackwater Worldwide convoy and had been trying to clear a path for U.S. diplomats after a nearby car bomb.
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Besides, Bran does have one thing going for him: his Master of Coin, the finally rewarded Ser Bronn of the Blackwater, Lord of Highgarden and Lord Paramount of the Reach.
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Aurizon said in a statement that if the strikes go ahead, its coal trains would not run on its Blackwater and Moura networks for 24 hours from noon on Friday.
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Mark Cocker, a British author and environmentalist, bought Blackwater, a five-acre plot of damp fen woodland, in 2012, with the aim of returning it to a state of nature.
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His restoration of Blackwater to the condition it was in before the arrival of sheep, pesticides and man is part of a broader embrace of "rewilding", in practice and literature.
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In 2014, its financial owners took another step to distance themselves from the Blackwater brand by merging the company with another private security firm, Triple Canopy, to form Constellis Holdings.
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The Blackwater line was scheduled to re-open later this week and start replenishing global coking coal supplies after Cyclone Debbie hit the state of Queensland and disrupted haulage operations.
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He saved King's Landing at the battle of the Blackwater; he killed his father with a crossbow; he escaped all the way to Essos to become Daenerys Targaryen's chief advisor.
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Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater USA, the private security company now known as Academi, at one point hired Mr. Nader to help the company generate business deals in Iraq.
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Mr. Nader, who grew close later to several advisers in the Trump White House, had once worked as a consultant to Blackwater, a private security firm now known as Academi.
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Ms. Toensing has also represented Sam Clovis, the former Trump campaign co-chairman, and Erik Prince, the founder of the security contractor Blackwater and an informal adviser to Mr. Trump.
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Episode 227, "Blackwater": in which we get the first major onscreen battle of the series, a song from Bronn, a rousing speech from Tyrion and some major snottiness from Joffrey.
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Three other Blackwater contractors, Dustin L. Heard, Evan S. Liberty and Paul A. Slough, were convicted of voluntary manslaughter and using a machine gun to carry out a violent crime.
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The operations were orchestrated by Erik Prince, a security contractor and founder of Blackwater, a private military company he sold in 2010 following years of controversy, criminal complaints, and lawsuits.
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The letter also targets the Chairman of MoMA's Board of Trustees, Leon Black, whose equity firm Apollo Global Management is invested in the defense contractor Constellis Holdings, formerly named Blackwater.
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It featured a cast of Trump loyalists including former White House official Sebastian Gorka, Blackwater founder Erik Prince, former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and Fox News personality Pete Hegseth.
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Prince is the founder of Blackwater, a controversial security firm involved in human rights violations in Iraq, with some of the company's guards being criminally convicted of killing Iraqi civilians.
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There's even a little-known connection: Betsy DeVos's brother, Erik Prince, founded Blackwater, the mercenary outfit that, among other things, helped destabilize Iraq by firing into a crowd of civilians.
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The firm is sometimes described as the Russian Blackwater in reference to the U.S. private military contractor founded by Erik Prince, a likeness Prigozhin appears to be emulating, according to Nance.
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Though Prince left Blackwater in 2010, he's now the chairman of an African-based security and logistics company called Frontier Services Group, not to mention brother of Education Secretary Betsy Devos.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads LONDON — Last weekend I travelled to the coast for a friend's party on a tiny spit of land in the picturesque Blackwater Estuary in Essex.
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An appeals court on Friday vacated the first-degree murder conviction of a Blackwater guard charged with being involved in a massacre in Iraq — and ordered a new trial for him.
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Status: No public court activity yet, but two key figures are known to be cooperating: Middle East would-be power broker George Nader and Blackwater mercenary group founder Erik Prince. 213.
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Blackwater founder Erik Prince represented Donald Trump at a secret overseas meeting convened by the United Arab Emirates in early January, two intelligence sources familiar with the matter told NBC News.
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Prince, who founded the Blackwater firm that became a private security provider for the U.S. government in Iraq, is the brother of Betsy DeVos, the education secretary in the Trump administration.
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How he might return: Salladhor has been a good friend to Davos, rescuing him from the sea after the Battle of Blackwater in Season 2 and dropping him off to Dragonstone.
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Glamorized fight scenes like the Battle of Blackwater and the sack of Astapor are few and far between in the books (though admittedly, some specific acts of violence are markedly nastier).
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For all its stunning set pieces — the battles of the Blackwater and Hardhome, the duel between Oberyn Martell and Gregor (the Mountain) Clegane — "Thrones" at heart is a series of conversations.
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Erik Prince, the founder of the private security firm formerly known as Blackwater, is making a new pitch for his proposal to turn U.S. combat operations in Afghanistan over to mercenaries.
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A former Blackwater security guard was convicted on Wednesday for his role in the 6900 shooting of several unarmed Iraqi civilians, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia said.
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The Post reported that Blackwater founder Erik Prince met with a Russian close to President Vladimir Putin in early January on the Seychelles islands in order to create the back channel.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government dramatically increased spending on services from the notorious company formerly known as Blackwater, which was widely considered a shadowy mercenary force and accused of war crimes.
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Erik Prince, the billionaire founder of Blackwater Worldwide, confirmed Thursday that he met with a Russian banker with close ties to the Kremlin in a secret January meeting in the Seychelles.
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The others are believed to include the case of a former Blackwater security contractor recently found guilty in the deadly 2007 shooting of dozens of unarmed Iraqis; the case of Maj.
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Paths that wind through the Canaan valley are a major draw for mountain bikers and cross country skiers; hiking trails offer gentler treks to points overlooking the valley and Blackwater Falls.
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Rohrabacher also defended Prince when Blackwater, today known as Academi, came under fire after a group of its employees opened fire on Iraqi civilians in 2007, killing 85033 and injuring 20.
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In 2008, Mr. Feinberg also considered investing in Blackwater, the security firm founded by Erik Prince, a former member of the Navy SEALs, before it was ultimately acquired by other investors.
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It also pointed to plans by Frontier Services Group, a Hong Kong-based company that counts former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince among its investors, to build a "training center" in Xinjiang.
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Prince, the brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, is best known for founding the security firm Blackwater, and in recent years, he has engendered further controversy over his ties to Trump.
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He said that while it was controversial because of Prince's record with Blackwater, the other question raised by the move is in whose interest the company is operating by supporting Chinese projects.
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Slatten and his fellow guards were traveling in a heavily armed, four-truck Blackwater Worldwide convoy and had been trying to clear a path for U.S. diplomats after a nearby car bomb.
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His murder conviction came a year after a federal appeals court vacated his initial 2014 conviction, saying he should have been tried separately from three other Blackwater guards involved in the incident.
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Prince is the former CEO of the controversial private security firm Blackwater, which was later renamed and sold and now operates as Academi, and is the brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.
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Adam Schiff of California, said he supported releasing the Simpson transcripts, noting the committee has previously released interview transcripts of onetime Trump foreign policy adviser Carter Page and Blackwater founder Erik Prince.
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This provision was removed after Democrats discovered some of the college's notable alumni, including Republican super donor and Education Secretary Betsy Devos, as well as her brother and Blackwater founder Erik Prince.
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Mr. Trump rewarded his loyalty by pledging his backing for Mr. Barrasso last year, heading off an early primary threat from Erik Prince, the Blackwater founder who is close to Mr. Bannon.
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A Blackwater Worldwide employee convicted of murdering 14 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad in 2007 will have his conviction vacated and be given a new trial, a U.S. federal appeals court ruled Friday.
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Even today, Oversight veterans speak in awed tones about a 2007 hearing when Cummings questioned the State Department's inspector general, Howard Krongard, about claims that he impeded a federal investigation into Blackwater.
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Erik Prince founded the private military contractor once known as Blackwater, which became notorious during the Iraq War for a series of scandals, including a 20143 massacre that left 17 Iraqis dead.
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In November, the Wall Street Journal reported that Trump administration officials had spoken with Erik Prince, the billionaire founder of the private security contractor formerly known as Blackwater, about buying the company.
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While he was at Blackwater, the company became involved in one of the most notorious episodes of the Iraq war, when its employees opened fire in a Baghdad square, killing 17 civilians.
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"There are too many cooks in the kitchen — and the cooks change shift annually," former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince wrote in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal back in May.
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Blackwater, a United States military contractor in two Asian conflicts, became a symbol of unchecked American power in the Iraq war after its employees killed 17 unarmed civilians in Baghdad in 2007.
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The network would report directly to the president and CIA Director Mike Pompeo, and would be developed by Blackwater founder Erik Prince, according to multiple current and former officials speaking to The Intercept.
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In one of the Iraq War's most controversial turns, a pack of employees from Blackwater—which has supplied armed paramilitary guards to the US, among other services—gunned down 17 civilians in Baghdad.
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Tyrion Lannister, once the tactical genius of the Battle of Blackwater and the show's quippiest character, has been in a two-season slump where he can't seem to make a single good decision.
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Holland's other favourite daughters and sons include Betsy DeVos, the secretary of education, and her brother Erik Prince, who founded the private security firm Blackwater and was an early backer of Mr Trump.
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The Blackwater mercenary founder (and brother to education secretary Betsy DeVos) traveled to the remote islands in the Indian Ocean just before Trump's inauguration to have a secret meeting with a Kremlin official.
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The biggest conflict in the book is the Battle of Blackwater, the critical fight of the War of the Five Kings where Stannis Baratheon leads his armies against the Lannisters in King's Landing.
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The company was founded by former U.S. Navy SEAL officer Erik Prince and changed its name to Xe Services LLC in 2009 after the deadly 2007 shootout in Iraq tarnished the Blackwater brand.
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The survivor of many, many battles, including The Battle of the Bastards and the Battle of Blackwater, is no great warrior, but there's no way he manages to avoid a fight this time.
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CNN reported in March that North was one of several people listed to attend a fundraiser hosted by Blackwater founder Erik Prince, the brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, for California GOP Rep.
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The government said it's aware of Academi's past as Blackwater but defended continuing to use the company's services as cost effective and touted the "specialized training" elite operations soldiers receive at its facilities.
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The Times says the meeting was organized and attended by Erik Prince, the former head of Blackwater, a Republican donor with a controversial past in the Middle East as a private security contractor.
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The court also decided that three other former Blackwater contractors involved in the shooting — and who had previously been sentenced to 30 years in prison on manslaughter and firearm charges — would be resentenced.
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Emerdata's directors, according to public records, came to include Johnson Ko Chun Shun, a Hong Kong financier and business partner of Erik Prince, founder of the private security firm formerly known as Blackwater.
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After that discussion, Emirati officials helped set up the Seychelles meeting between Dmitriev, the head of the Russian investment fund, and Prince, a prominent Trump donor and founder of the security firm Blackwater.
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The former head of the private security contractor Blackwater is set to testify before the House Intelligence Committee next week as part of the panel's investigation into Russia's role in the 2016 election.
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Blackwater's founder: A company owned by Erik Prince, who created the security contracting firm Blackwater, announced that it had struck a deal to build a training camp in the Chinese region of Xinjiang.
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The Essex Serpent is the malevolent presence breathing through Sarah Perry's astonishing new novel, lurking below the surface of the Blackwater estuary and haunting the residents of the small country town of Colchester.
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One of the options that has been floated comes from Erik Prince, the controversial former head of the now disbanded Blackwater company, to use supply contractors for a variety of unspecified missions in Afghanistan.
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Tyrion utilized the flaming, green, Napalm-like solution to win the Battle of the Blackwater in Season 2, and Maester Qyburn seems to have brought Cersei news that still more exists in the city.
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In Wyoming, Bannon is attempting to recruit Erik Prince, the founder of security contractor Blackwater and the brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, to run against Barrasso, a source familiar with Bannon's thinking said.
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Blackwater founder Erik Prince on Wednesday touted his proposed strategy to replace most U.S. troops in Afghanistan with private contractors, saying the plan would help lower costs and improve combat capability in the country.
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He goes out looking for missing children and willingly rides with the finely hirsute Marshal Leigh Johnson, owner of the neatest mutton chops this side of Blackwater, against the various gangs plaguing the region.
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Washington (CNN)The second trial of a Blackwater contractor charged with first-degree murder for shooting unarmed civilians during the Iraq War has ended in a mistrial, according to US attorney spokesperson Bill Miller.
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The founder of the infamous Blackwater security contracting firm, Erik Prince, recently renewed his call for the Pentagon to fight the war in Afghanistan with an army of mercenaries — possibly under Prince's own command.
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Prosecutors had successfully argued that he touched off the killings with a precision shot through the head of a driver of a stopped white Kia as the Blackwater convoy moved through the traffic circle.
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HONG KONG — Erik Prince, a former member of the Navy SEALs best known as the founder of the security contractor formerly known as Blackwater, has made it clear that he considers China a priority.
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Mr. Prince's former company, Blackwater, won hundreds of millions of dollars in United States military contracts, mainly in Iraq, before it was essentially blacklisted after the firm's contractors massacred civilians in Baghdad in 2007.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The founder of private military contractor Blackwater is trying to interest U.S. intelligence agencies in his plan to privatize counter-terrorism operations in Afghanistan, even though the Trump administration earlier rejected the idea.
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Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and chief strategist Steve Bannon reportedly tapped Erik Prince, founder of the private security firm Blackwater, and Stephen Feinberg, owner of the military contractor DynCorp International, for the job.
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The images show a chattered gate and parapets destroyed by fire — the gates of King's Landing have never been breached before on the show, not even during Stannis Baratheon's attack at the Battle of Blackwater.
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Kolfage has said the nonprofit's advisory board included, among others, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, Blackwater founder Erik Prince, controversial former Wisconsin sheriff David A. Clarke Jr., and Fox News contributor Sara A. Carter.
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He is now a member of GOP leadership, and has $5 million in his campaign coffers, a decent starting point with Friess — as well as Blackwater founder Erik Prince — debating a primary challenge against him.
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The former head of U.S. Central Command did not mention by name Erik Prince, the Blackwater founder who in recent weeks has shopped a plan to replace most U.S. troops in Afghanistan with private contractors.
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The former head of U.S. Central Command did not mention by name Erik Prince, the Blackwater founder who in recent weeks has shopped a plan to replace most U.S. troops in Afghanistan with private contractors.
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Matthew Golsteyn, who is accused of killing an unarmed Afghan, and Blackwater contractor Nicholas Slatten who was convicted of murder for killing an Iraqi during a 2007 massacre, are also said to be under consideration.
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Blackwater Worldwide founder Erik Prince — the brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos — and DynCorp owner Stephen Feinberg last month offered proposals to White House officials to use contractors instead of U.S. military forces in Afghanistan.
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Washington (CNN)The House Intelligence Committee is set to meet Blackwater founder Erik Prince on Thursday for a closed-door interview that could shed light on one of the enduring questions of the Russia investigation.
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She is also the daughter of the founders of Prince Corp, a Michigan car parts supplier, and sister of Erik Prince, the founder of the security company formerly known as Blackwater USA, now called Academi.
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During the Battle of Blackwater, Cersei Lannister reassures Sansa that, thanks to her period, she won't get pregnant if King Stannis's soldiers should storm the castle and gang rape all the ladies of the court.
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According to the Times, Prince, the founder of the private security firm Blackwater WorldWide, appeared to first show interest in using former spies to train Project Veritas in espionage tactics during the 2016 presidential election.
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Nader brought together Erik Prince, a Trump associate and the founder of the mercenary company Blackwater, and Kirill Dmitriev, who manages a Russian sovereign wealth fund and is thought to be close to Vladimir Putin.
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With time, Sunfyre was able to fly across to Blackwater Bay (killing another dragon en route and sustaining fresh injuries) and finally make its way back to Dragonstone, where it rejoined the recuperating King Aegon.
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Every time we approached one of the checkpoints manned by young Yemeni gunmen, I'd slink lower in my seat and take off my shades, in hopes of looking a bit less like a Blackwater mercenary.
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Separately, President Trump's advisers recruited the founder of Blackwater, the private security firm, and an owner of a military contractor to devise alternatives to the Pentagon's plan to send thousands of additional troops to Afghanistan.
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"We'd known for about a year that the ninth episode was going to be 'Blackwater,' and a disproportionate amount of our resources were saved for this episode in terms of time and schedule," Benioff said.
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Prince, a supporter of President Donald Trump, founded U.S. military contractor Blackwater which drew international criticism for its actions in Iraq after its employees opened fire on a Baghdad street in traffic, killing 17 people.
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KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan officials have reacted angrily to speculation that foreign military contractors could take over training and advising the Afghan armed forces, following a renewed push by the founder of private military contractor Blackwater.
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The meeting brought together Erik Prince, Trump donor and founder of the private security company Blackwater, with Kirill Dmitriev, who manages a Russian sovereign wealth fund and is thought to be close to Vladimir Putin.
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Last week, an appeals court overturned the murder conviction of a former Blackwater Worldwide security guard sentenced to life in prison in the killings of 14 unarmed Iraqi civilians in a Baghdad traffic circle in 2007.
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Of course, the internet is thrilled; interest in this game is so high that Rockstar tweeting out a simple logo was enough to send every videogame website and personality from here to Blackwater into a tizzy.
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The founder of Blackwater and an associate of Vladimir Putin held a secret meeting in part to establish a "back-channel line of communication" between Donald Trump and the Russian president, according to the Washington Post.
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There were sequences that changed the rules for what a TV show could pull off, like the Battle of the Blackwater or the time Game of Thrones broke a record for setting stunt people on fire.
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What they're saying: Writing in Foreign Policy, Antony Loewenstein takes a skeptical view of Blackwater founder Erik Prince's new project to invest in the development of natural resources for EV batteries in the Congo and elsewhere.
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" Milisen added, "Out of the four divers underwater that day, we had over 1000 blackwater dives under our belt and none of us had ever seen anything like it, whether on earth or boldly going elsewhere!
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He says it appeared that the pitches coincided with a widely publicized effort by Erik Prince — the private security official, founder of Blackwater, and brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos — to privatize the war in Afghanistan.
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Meanwhile, privatizing the war, like Blackwater and some White House aides would have liked to do, also fails to provide the kind of deep, long-term commitment from the President on down that leads to success.
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In "Walk of Punishment," the bumbling squire Podrick is revealed as a great lover with a possibly enormous penis, even though we're already endeared to him for saving Tyrion's life at the Battle of the Blackwater.
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Nicholas Slatten, a former Blackwater security contractor, was convicted of murder—twice—for his leading role in the private security company's 2007 fatal shooting of 10 women, two children, and two men in Baghdad's Nisour Square.
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A former Blackwater security guard was sentenced to life in prison without parole Wednesday for his role in the 28503 shooting of several unarmed Iraqi civilians, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia said.
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The water is several times described in the script as "graywater," which is actually the pretty clean wastewater that drains from washing machines and sinks and so on (blackwater is the stuff with the fecal contamination).
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And it argues that Erik Prince, the former head of the private security firm formerly known as Blackwater, must fully explain his meeting in the Seychelles with the head of a Russian investment firm, Kirill Dmitriev.
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The court said he should not have been prosecuted alongside his three Blackwater colleagues, and that a fellow security guard — who testified that he, not Mr. Slatten, had fired the first shots — harmed the government's case.
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"I get a kick out of it," said Misty Spencer-Sauer, 40, a stay-at-home mother from Blackwater, Mo., who drove more than an hour to attend the Columbia rally with her father and fiancé.
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Over these four decades we have seen an increase in the use of day laborers, office temps, management consultants, contract assemblers, adjunct professors, Blackwater mercenaries and every other kind of worker filing an I.R.S. form 1099.
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The plan also includes a 90-plane private air force that would provide air support in the nearly 16-year-old war against Taliban insurgents, Erik Prince, founder of the Blackwater security firm, told USA TODAY.
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Blackwater founder Erik Prince said Monday that he would have preferred getting a "proctology exam" to being interviewed by special counsel Robert Mueller's team of investigators about his meeting with a Russian investor linked to Vladimir Putin.
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A member of the Kingsguard, the Hound is also present for the Battle of the Blackwater, but after witnessing the use of wildfire to decimate Stannis Baratheon's fleet, he defects — not a fan of fire, the Hound!
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Given America's checkered experience with private military forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, Trump's anti-government rhetoric, and his apparent comfort with commingling state and commercial power, the last thing we need is a Blackwater on the Potomac.
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Another Emerdata director, Johnson Ko Chun Shun, is a Hong Kong financier and business partner of Erik Prince — the brother of the education secretary, Betsy DeVos, and founder of the private security firm formerly known as Blackwater.
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If she knows what's good for her, Dany isn't going to bring one of those vile beasts near the Lannister front lines ever again — at least not while Ser Bronn of the Blackwater is on the prowl.
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It's true that Prince had no official role in the transition but only a few days after the alleged meeting took place, Jeremy Scahill, who wrote a book on Blackwater, reported that Prince was informally advising Trump.
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The officials said they believe the president is also allegedly considering a pardon for Nicholas Slatten, a former Blackwater security guard who was convicted last year for his role in a 2007 shooting of unarmed Iraqi civilians.
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Nader was also in discussions with Mr. Prince, the former head of Blackwater, about a plan to get the Saudis to pay $2 billion to set up a private army to combat Iranian proxy forces in Yemen.
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It's also possible that the show will be a single-setting episode, much like how episodes nine in season two ("Blackwater") and four ("The Watchers on the Wall") were major battle scenes set around a single castle.
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The Justice Department had successfully argued that Mr. Slatten hated Iraqis and had sparked the shootings when he killed a driver, unprovoked, in a stopped car, as a convoy of Blackwater contractors made its way through traffic.
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The Battle of the Blackwater even featured the now-standard last-minute surprise attack that turned the tide, this time led by Tywin Lannister and Loras Tyrell as the first act in the two great families' alliance.
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And in a new op-ed for the Financial Times, Prince says that he has the solution to the ongoing European migrant crisis, and that it involves working with companies that sound an awful lot like Blackwater.
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Prince, who founded the private security company formerly known as Blackwater, today known as Academi, had testified before the House Intelligence Committee that the meeting was by chance and had been set up by a UAE official.
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After the Iraq war, Prince sold off his interests in Blackwater — now named Academi — and founded the Frontier Services Group, or FSG, a security and logistics firm based in Hong Kong and financed by the Chinese government.
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The Donald Trump supporter who Stone alerted in October 2016 that "the payload is coming" -- an apparent reference to WikiLeaks' release of damaging emails from Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign -- was Blackwater founder Erik Prince, according to prosecutors.
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The Blackwater refuge in Maryland has treated me to the stirring sight of hundreds of wintering tundra swans, while in New Mexico, I glimpsed the comical crests of my first-ever scaled quail at the Bitter Lake refuge.
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The reopening of the Blackwater line will allow Australian mines to start replenishing world coking coal supplies, with Thomson Reuters Eikon data showing 38 bulk cargo ships at anchor near Gladstone, most of them waiting to load coal.
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John McCain presented one that would involve an increase in US troops and further airstrikes, while Erik Prince -- the founder of the security company Blackwater -- pressed the US to move its strategy largely over to the private sector.
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In parts sheer and wooded, it opens into an unexpected valley, where secluded pastures and fields of wild flowers hug Blackwater Creek—in which the water is not black but clear, running, like the valley, down into Virginia.
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George Nader is a Lebanese-American businessman who once worked as a consultant for Blackwater and now advises Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan (MbZ), the de facto ruler of the United Arab Emirates, per the NYT.
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U.S.-BACKED MILITARY OPS Erik Prince - the founder of private security firm Blackwater and a supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump - has been pushing a plan to deploy a private army to help topple Maduro, sources told Reuters.
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Mr. Nader was also in discussions with Mr. Prince, the former head of Blackwater, about a plan to get the Saudis to pay $2 billion to set up a private army to combat Iranian proxy forces in Yemen.
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Prince and Rohrabacher have been friends and mutual supporters for years: Prince interned for the California congressman on Capitol Hill in 1990, and Rohrabacher vigorously defended Prince when Blackwater faced congressional scrutiny during President George W. Bush's administration.
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Having been successful in the Gallagher case, Mr. Hegseth has now taken up the cause of winning pardons for the Blackwater security contractors who were found guilty in the 2007 shooting of dozens of unarmed Iraqis in Baghdad.
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Breitbart took particular issue with that, featuring a piece by former Blackwater CEO and Navy SEAL Erik Prince to blast that move as a mistake and push for a private contractors to carry out more of the war.
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After Blackwater employees were held responsible for civilian deaths in Baghdad, Mr. Prince sold the company and set up FSG, turning his sights to the growing demand from Chinese companies moving into countries and regions with ethnic strife.
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The delay for a decision left an opening for Erik Prince, the founder of the former Blackwater military contracting firm and the brother of Trump's education secretary, Betsy DeVos, to propose replacing U.S. forces in Afghanistan with mercenaries.
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Others regard it as a group of common mercenaries fashioned in the mold of Erik Prince's US outfit Blackwater (now known as Academi) — and likewise run by a controversial businessman who seeks out contracts via connections to government elites.
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For instance, the Mueller report showed that Erik Prince, founder of the now defunct security firm Blackwater USA and a Trump supporter, may have misled Congress on details of contact he had with a Russian banker in January 2017.
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At the end of Sunday night's season 7 premiere, the Mother of Dragons and her fleet of Ironborn ships touched ground at Dragonstone, a castle at the mouth of Blackwater Bay — and the ancestral seat of the Targaryen house.
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While most of the players were having big shootouts in team deathmatch, I was trying to convince rookie players to fall into the San Luis River, or trying to race from the city of Blackwater to Escalera before sundown.
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A federal appeals court on Friday threw out the first-degree murder conviction of a former Blackwater security contractor who had previously been sentenced to life in prison for his role in the 2007 slayings of 14 Iraqi civilians.
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Erik Prince, founder of the private security firm once known as Blackwater, is asserting that a meeting he had with an associate of Russian President Vladimir Putin was "incidental," denying the existence of any back-channel communications with Russia.
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The contracts continue more than a decadelong connection between Blackwater and its subsequent iterations and the Department of National Defence, first established as far back as 2006 under the Conservatives at the beginning of the combat mission in Afghanistan.
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The retrial of the former Blackwater contractor, Nicholas A. Slatten, was declared a mistrial by Judge Royce C. Lamberth of the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia after jurors deliberated for 16 days without reaching a verdict.
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The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee is questioning whether Blackwater founder Erik Prince potentially misled lawmakers during his testimony last fall about the purpose of his 2016 meeting with a Russian official with ties to the Kremlin.
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" Prince says that should Trump decide to use private contractors, the Blackwater founder "would vigorously compete to implement a plan that ... costs less than 20 percent of current spending and saves American taxpayers more than $40 billion a year.
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" The Military Times newspaper reported Wednesday that the former Blackwater CEO had already presented "a business proposal offering a 'turn-key composite air wing' to help the fledgling Afghan air force fight against the Taliban and other militant groups.
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A private company in the mold of Blackwater is obviously different from the Legion, which is a branch of the French military, but the idea of subsidizing a mercenary force of some description may be the least unattractive alternative.
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