Well no shite, really? A New York Times piece is doing it's best to rile up the villagers with some breathless, anonymous tidbits saying Blackwater participated in raids with the CIA. Highly trained personnel employed with the private security firm formerly known as Blackwater Worldwide sometimes operated side by side with CIA field officers in Iraq and Afghanistan as the agency undertook missions to kill or capture members of insurgent groups in those countries, according to a former government official and a source familiar with the operations. The actions taken by the private personnel went beyond the protective role specified in a classified Blackwater contract with the CIA and included active participation in raids overseen by CIA or special forces personnel, these sources said. They emphasized that roles and responsibilities often are blurred or altered in a battlefield setting, and that Blackwater personnel were drawn into the operations on an ad-hoc basis because they were present and had the necessary skills. Ooooh sounds scary. I am working on some specifics, but this has all the hallmarks of journalists who don't understand covert ops taking quotes from anonymous who knows whos and trying to make them sound as ominous as possible. I will update as I get more info in.
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Dec 10 2009, 11:53 PM
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