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Pile-jumping a little bit, but Blackwater's anti-pirate navy has, in the words the USNI blog, sunk.

Apparently so, according to Peter W. Singer.

I don't think Blackwater falls under these rules or any DoD regulations since their primary contract is with the DoS, as in this particular incident.

Yup, Ms. Hillhouse wrote the NATION article - an excellent piece of work. I'm still struggling to see the upside of doing all this stuff in the private sector. Seriously, are we saving that much...

sgm - If you think contracting is out of control on the DoS/DoD side, I suggest avoiding what is going on in the intel side, in all the alphabet soup agencies: DIA, CIA, NSA, etc.

Remarkable that this incident never made the news at the time. The killing of the Iraqi vice president's bodyguard at Christmas by a BW contractor has made the rounds, but I never heard of this...

Perhaps the best evidence of South Africa's cynicism with regards to Zimbabwe's white population can be seen in its support for the "Super ZAPU" insurgency in Ndebeleland which specifically targeted...