Past lingers for company formerly called Blackwater

[unhappycamper]

Past lingers for company formerly called Blackwater
By Bill Sizemore
The Virginian-Pilot
© January 3, 2012

As it goes about the complicated task of putting its past behind it, the Moyock, N.C.-based company once known as Blackwater is going through some lean times.

Nevertheless, its reach has never been wider. Its workers have deployed to more than a dozen countries around the world, many of them hot spots of civil unrest.

That should be no cause for alarm, the current owners say, because the old company is no more. Blackwater - some of whose security operatives were accused of killing civilians in war zones, and several of whose top executives face felony firearms charges - is dead and buried, a stake plunged into its heart.

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The urgency of outrunning the Blackwater legacy is apparent in recent revenue numbers.


http://hamptonroads.com/2012/01/past-lingers-company-formerly-called-blackwater

[Ichingcarpenter]

1. I thought they changed the name to XE? I had to look it up

I wonder if they will change it again? However they are still getting 1/4 of a billion dollar contracts.




The Obama administration awarded Academi a $250 million contract to work for the U.S. State Department and the Central Intelligence Agency in Afghanistan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academi

[annabanana]

2. a rose by any other name

would stink and fester just the same.

[lonestarnot]

3. Bastards.

[riverwalker]

4. dead and buried?

Oh, I don't think so. We will remember. The name will live in infamy. Blackwater. Blackwater.