Erik_Prince - UPI Pictures of the Year 2007

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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Blackwater faces sixth suit for shootings
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.
Blackwater moves to dismiss lawsuit
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.
CIA, Blackwater planned assassination
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.
Security firm denies criminal allegation
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.
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