WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- The private security firm Blackwater Worldwide was prepared to battle Somali pirates on the high seas, a secret cable sent by a U.S. Embassy in Africa reveals.
The cable, sent to the State Department in February 2009 and among the trove released during the weekend by WikiLeaks, told that Blackwater had turned a research vessel into a pirate-hunting ship and was seeking clients to protect, The New York Times reported Wednesday.