Despite US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's campaign promise to no longer award military contracts to Blackwater - the now renamed notorious security contractor - the US state department has recently awarded the company another lucrative contract.
Blackwater was renamed Xe after a string of legal cases against the company in the US and in Iraq.
Wired.com
reports that while neither Xe nor Blackwater appear
on the list of eight firms hired for the Worldwide Protective Services contract (a group of contracts combined into one), one of the
company's fronts, International Development Solutions LLC (IDS) is on the list.
In total, the contract for all eight companies is worth $10bn.
"When I am president I will ask the Joint Chiefs for their help in reducing reliance on armed private military contractors with the goal of ultimately implementing a ban on such contractors,"
Clinton said during her presidential campaign in 2008.
Indeed, Clinton was the
only co-sponsor in the US senate of the
Stop Outsourcing Security Act, introduced in 2007.
10-01-2010, 08:13 PM
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