Another Lawsuit Targets Founder of Blackwater

by Bill Sizemore, The Virgin-Pilot, Sep 16, 2009

Yet another civil lawsuit accuses Blackwater guards of driving through the streets of Baghdad randomly shooting innocent Iraqis.

Grilled by the politicans … Erik Prince, chairman of the Prince Group, LLC and Blackwater USA, testifies during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on Capitol Hill. (Photo: AFP)

The latest case accuses Blackwater founder Erik Prince of personally directing murders from a 24-hour remote monitoring “war room” at the private military company’s Moyock, N.C., headquarters.

Prince “personally directed and permitted a heavily-armed private army… to roam the streets of Baghdad killing innocent civilians,” alleges the suit, filed by four Iraqi citizens.

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Tags: Baghdad, Blackwater, Erik Prince, killing civilians, murders, night huntings, Nisoor Square incident

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One Response to “Another Lawsuit Targets Founder of Blackwater”

moraloutrage Says:
February 12, 2010 at 5:14 pm | Reply
And yet another:

Fast forward to February 2010:

Two former employees of Blackwater Worldwide, Brad and Melan Davis, have accused the private security company of defrauding the U.S. government for years by filing bogus receipts, double billing for the same services and charging government agencies for strippers and prostitutes, according to court documents unsealed this week.

Blackwater woes: Mercenaries get the boot from Iraq plus fraud charges

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