UPI Pictures of the Year 2007
Chairman of Blackwater USA Erik Prince testifies before a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on private security contracting in Iraq in Washington on October 2, 2007. (UPI Photo/Kevin Dietsch)
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MOYOCK, N.C., Sept. 16 (UPI) -- A group of Iraqis filed suit against Blackwater stemming from an incident of guards driving through the streets of Baghdad randomly shooting innocent people.
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 30 (UPI) -- Lawyers for Iraqis killed by Blackwater employees told a U.S. judge Erik Prince, the company's founder, is directly responsible.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 (UPI) -- The security contracting firm Xe, formerly known as Blackwater Worldwide, is still involved in U.S. operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, documents indicate.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 (UPI) -- The CIA hired private contractors at Blackwater USA for a clandestine effort to assassinate al-Qaida operatives, officials said.
BAGHDAD, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- Private security contractors in Iraq may be a necessary inconvenience as the country struggles to court foreign investors for reconstruction, official say.
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 (UPI) -- Xe, a private security firm formerly known as Blackwater Worldwide, has denied claims in court documents that its founder engaged in criminal activity in Iraq.
ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 2 (UPI) -- Contractors employed by the Blackwater private military company, now called Xe, were responsible for six unprovoked attacks in Iraq, a lawsuit alleges.
ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 8 (UPI) -- U.S. security contractor Blackwater USA and its founder Erik Prince have been named in a lawsuit alleging a war crime in Iraq, documents indicate.
WASHINGTON, April 3 (UPI) -- Don't look now but it is raining lawyers; or to be more precise, lawsuits. Just consider what has happened in the past two weeks.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- The Worldwide Personal Protective Services contract, or WPPS, is the way the State Department hires private security firms to protect its personnel.