Posted on 08/05/2009 2:02:23 PM PDT by Hawk720
The head of Blackwater and his employees may have killed or ordered the killing of people suspected of cooperating with federal investigators probing their activities, according to an anonymous affidavit filed in federal court Monday.
The affidavit, one of two filed Monday, makes an extraordinary bundle of claims about the former Blackwater CEO, Erik Prince, and his employees. The existence of the documents was first reported by the Nation magazine Tuesday.
They were filed as part of a civil suit against Prince and Blackwater by several Iraqis, which accuse the firm and owner of war crimes, wrongful death and more.
The men gave the affidavits as "John Doe" and "John Doe 2," saying they feared for their safety. "Mr. Prince's management has personally threatened me with death and violence," wrote Doe 2. He says also that others told him "Mr. Prince and his employees murdered, or had murdered" one or more people who had cooperated with the feds, or were planning to.
But allegations of murder just scratch the surface: the two men – one alleges he is an ex-Marine, the other says he shared his allegations with a federal grand jury – claim far more. John Doe 2 claims routine murderous violence against Iraqis, a wife-swapping sex ring, use of child prostitutes, gun-running and more by Blackwater employees. John Doe 2 describes Prince as viewing himself as "a Christian crusader tasked with eliminating Muslims and the Islamic faith from the globe," who intentionally sent like-minded mercenaries to Iraq "to take every available opportunity to murder Iraqis."
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Did it get filed in Alaska?
Civil suit, yaaaawn.
All this, coming out of little ol’ Mo-Yock? Say it ain’t so, lol.
The Nation is a leftist, socialist rag. Not a source to be trusted for anything but lies and spin.
“an ex-Marine”??? the writer has probably never met a Marine!
“wife swapping?”
When you are getting shot at 24/7 I don’t think there is much time to establish a “sex ring of wife swapping”.
What crap. Blackwater kept our “politicians” alive and many other civilians.
Gee, that sounds typical UN Peacekeepers to me. Are they sure they got the right outfit?
Oh brother. Next they’ll claim Blackwater is conversing with Hitler in Argentina.
Yeah perfect. Isn’t this like the cases against Marines where we allow Iraqi insurgents to make anontmous allegations and then we hammer these people until someone “cracks”. I can’t stand the way we fight wars any more
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090817/scahill
The Nation, Dennis Kucinich and Brian Ross ABC in 2008-
Jeremy Scahill, a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute, is the author of the bestselling Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army, published by Nation Books.
Erik Prince is a genius!!
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