Blackwater is Back!

So, remember a few years ago when a certain mercenary (read: murder-for-hire) company shot up a group of Iraqis in cold blood and then months later were kicked out of Iraq (despite Uncle Sam's best attempts at pretending it didn't happen), renamed themselves Xe Services and prayed that people would forget about it?

Sounds like they got their wish.

CBS News reported today that Blackwater/Xe has been awarded a $120 million contract to "provide "protective security services" at the new U.S. consulates in Herat and Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan". Their work will begin "immediately" and will last 12-18 months.

Now lets rehash some of the nasty little things we know about Blackwater/Xe:

• Blackwater/XE CEO Erik Prince isn't a big fan of telling the government exactly what his company does.
• Also on CEO Prince....he is know to be a rabid Christian zealot and tells his employees that they are on a "Christian Crusade." Further, according to sworn statements from Xe employees, Prince openly encouraged his employees to destroy Iraqi life at will, including a desire to "lay hajjis out on cardboard". He also really, really, really, hates Muslims and wants to eliminate Islam from the globe. Just the kind of person who's company we want in a country that is so tenaciously stubborn that the majority of it has yet to leave the Stone Age, never mind convert.
  
• As late as June of this year, Xe employees, including former president Gary Jackson were indicted on felony weapons charges relating to falsifying records to Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms pertaining to purchases of several AK-47s and M4 assault rifles

And this is what I could find while I was drunk at my graduation party. I think you all get the idea.

"Fool me once, same on you. Murder more Muslims.....shame on Uncle Sam for letting you get away with it again?"