Blackwater’s brutalities in Iraq

ISLAMABAD - The lucrative and secretive contracts awarded to Blackwater by Washington to assist the organisation in pursuit of US expansionistic designs might serve as an eye-opener for many, though an ‘extensive campaign’ on part of Islamabad is underway to negate the presence of this notorious outfit.
Investigations conducted by this newspaper based on the published matter available with different sections of press show that US government was all bent to oblige Blackwater by awarding contracts worth millions of dollars. In addition, the atrocities carried out by the notorious organisation in Iraq are yet another episode of brutality and inhumanity.
A prominent Western media organisation reports that Blackwater was awarded a remunerative contract that aimed at extending protection to US diplomats in Iraq where US has its largest embassy. It is reported that around 100,000 security contractors work in Iraq.
Justifying the particular contract given to Blackwater in Iraq that worth up to $500 million, American Envoy to Iraq Ryan Crocker recorded before US Senate, “There is simply no way at all that the State Department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security could ever have enough full-time personnel to staff the security function in Iraq. There is no alternative except through contracts.”
A foreign-based journalist currently residing in Islamabad who had closely monitored the activities of Blackwater during his extensive stay in the Middle East, is of the view that Blackwater stands as largest security contractor of the United States, while an American website reports that Blackwater is currently the largest of the US State Department’s three private security contractors. “Ninety percent of the company’s revenue comes from government contracts, of which two-thirds are no-bid contracts,” it says.
“Xe provided security services in Iraq to the United States federal government, particularly the Central Intelligence Agency on a contractual basis. They no longer have a license to operate in Iraq: the new Iraqi government made multiple attempts to expel them from their country, and denied their application for an operating license in January 2009. However, the company is still under contract with the State Department and some Xe personnel are working illegally in Iraq at least until September 2009,” it is further reported.