[Peace-discuss] Terrorist activity in the ME

[C. G. Estabrook]

	The New York Times
	Thu, December 10, 2009
	Blackwater Guards Tied To
	Covert Raids by the C.I.A.

Private security guards from Blackwater Worldwide
participated in some of the C.I.A.'s most sensitive
activities -- clandestine raids with agency officers against
people suspected of being insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan
and the transporting of detainees, according to former
company employees and intelligence officials.

The raids against suspects occurred on an almost nightly
basis during the height of the Iraqi insurgency between 2004
and 2006, with Blackwater personnel playing central roles in
what company insiders called "snatch and grab" operations,
the former employees and current and former intelligence
officers said.

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