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Blackwater Pays Millions in Arms Smuggling Case

Security contractors in Baghdad. Photo: courtesy of Robert Young Pelton. Depending on how you look at it, the world’s most notorious mercenary firm just got away with misleading the government about arming and training foreign governments — or the company...

Mercenaries Sue Blackwater Over Fake Gun Tests

A Blackwater helicopter circles over the site of a bomb blast in Baghdad, 2004. Photo: Wikimedia The security firm once known as Blackwater has repeatedly tried to distance itself from its bad old days of wrongful death and corporate misconduct. But a new lawsuit...