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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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WASHINGTON, June 8 (UPI) -- The founder of Blackwater Worldwide has no ties to Reflex Responses, a company training troops in the United Arab Emirates, the president of the company says.
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, May 15 (UPI) -- The founder of Blackwater is building a secret mercenary army in the the United Arab Emirates, former employees and U.S. officials say.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- The private security firm formerly known as Blackwater is being sold, people close to founder Erik Prince told The New York Times.
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, Oct. 22 (UPI) -- U.S. security magnate Erik Prince, embattled for head of the notorious Blackwater mercenary outfit that made a fortune in Iraq, is setting up shop in the United Arab Emirates.
MOYOCK, N.C., Aug. 19 (UPI) -- The founder of the largest U.S. State Department private security contractor moved himself and his family to the United Arab Emirates, court papers indicate.
HOLLAND, Mich., May 6 (UPI) -- The man who once headed the international security firm formerly known as Blackwater defends the firm's record despite controversy it engendered in Iraq.
HOLLAND, Mich., May 5 (UPI) -- Private security contractors working in Afghanistan called in NATO airstrikes, Erik Prince, the founder of contractor Xe, was recorded as saying.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- The founder of Blackwater Worldwide, the U.S. military contractor employed in Iraq and Afghanistan, says he helped secret CIA programs targeting al-Qaida.
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.
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