Blackwater operating at CIA Pakistan base, ex-official says | World news | The Guardian

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/11/blackwater-in-cia-pakistan-base

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The US contractor Blackwater is operating in Pakistan at a secret CIA airfield used for launching drone attacks, according to a former US official, despite repeated government denials that the company is in the country.
The official, who had direct knowledge of the operation, said that employees with Blackwater, now renamed Xe Services, patrol the area round the Shamsi airbase in Baluchistan province.
He also confirmed that Blackwater employees help to load laser-guided Hellfire missiles on to CIA-operated drones that target al-Qaida members suspected of hiding in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border regions.......

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Created by DrPot on 12 December 2009

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Can we have the truth about these people, about which much controversy exists after their actions in Iraq....

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