A Special Forces Army
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“By
Rumsfeld’s last day in office,
the ratio of active-duty U.S.
soldiers to private contractors
deployed in Iraq had almost reached one
to one, a statistic unprecedented
in modern warfare… The
dramatic military
privatization scheme
launched during Bill Cheney’s
time as Secretary of Defense during
the 1991 Gulf War had grown beyond
his widest expectations under
Rumsfeld and has forever
altered the way the United States
wages its wars.” – Blackwater,
341.
On the edge of the
Great Dismal Swamp there is continual
weapons fire. A million rounds of
ammunition are fired annually.
[Robert M. Hausman, “Blackwater
and Heckler & Koch Form Training
Program,” The Small Arms
Review, vol. 10, No. 11, August,
2007, p. 55.]
Over 50,000 Hosted
“On over 6,000
acres of private land, Blackwater has
trained and hosted over 50,000 law
enforcement, military and civilian
personnel. Reputed to be the most
comprehensive private tactical
training facility in the United
States, the instructors are ranked
among the best and its facilities are
top rate.” Hausman, op. cit.
Capability to Launch
1700-man
Privately Trained
and Equipped
Army…. With
Air Force and
Surveillance
‘Erik has the
capability to launch his own brigade
of private soldiers, or what he likes
to call ‘Relief with Teeth’
– seventeen-hundred-man
privately trained and equipped army
that would field its air force of
helicopters and cargo craft. Those
with the money could also rent
‘fire support,’ complete
with a private gunship,
intelligence gathering, aerial
surveillance, remote-controlled
blimps, and fast-attack aircraft with
JDAMS (joint direct attack munitions
or cluster bombs. There would be
a construction, medical, supply, and
combat group adhering to a ratio of
about one Western professionally
trained officer to ten TCNs, or
third-country nationals – Robert
Young Pelton, Licensed to Kill:
Hired Guns in the War on Terror.
New York: Crown Publishers, 2006, p.
4.
“Blackwater’s
latest aviation innovation is a CASA
212 gunship modified with two A12
guns. It can spit out forty-two
hundred 50-caliber bullets per
minute, which can travel thirty-four
hundred feet per second. Seventy
bullets per second creates a steady
stream of red tracer fire that with
depleted uranium shells can easily
turn armored vehicles into Swiss
cheese.” –Pelton, 294.
A Complete Special
Forces Army
Blackwater is
essentially a complete Special
Forces army, the elite of the elite.
Blackwater has taken off where the US
military has dragged its feet,
implementing, without lack of funding
or imagination, the latest concepts
of twenty-first century warfare, even
to the production of the Grizzly APC,
a state-of-the-art armored vehicle
engineered to defeat up to 50 caliper
projectiles, as well as the deadly
blast waves produced by mines,
rocket-propelled grenades, and
improvised explosive devices, IEDs.
The plant producing the Grizzly APC
comprises 100,000 square feet.
Blackwater is only one
of the thousands of new, powerful
mercenary armies, created as a
byproduct of the War on Terrorism.
The World is Exploding
With
Thousands of New
Mercenary
Armies
While you and I are
sleeping, the world is exploding with
a radically new phenomenon-thousands
of new powerful mercenary armies who
are doing the real fighting in the
War on Terror all around the world. A
new era is dawning in so many areas.
US Navy SEALs, Army
Rangers, Elite Special Forces, not
only from America but also from elite
forces all around the world are being
hired in an exploding market of
mercenary armies deploying globally.
They are the best of
the best, extremely heavily armed,
and are doing the most dangerous work
in the most deadly areas of the
world-Iraq, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan,
the Caspian Sea, etc., etc.
Immunity From
Prosecution
In Iraq they operate
with immunity from prosecution-a
Special Forces dream come true-making
them uninhibited warriors against
terrorists, insurgents, and
resistance fighters.
Mirror Image: Learning
to Think
and Act Like
Terrorists
Blackwater has
classes, taught by such as Walter
Purdy, ex-marine and former security
staffer for the presidential
helicopter, that teach weeklong
training programs called
“Mirror Image,” which train
students in how to think, act, and
attack exactly like terrorists. “Purdy’s
literature describes the course as
‘an intensive, one-week
classroom and field training program
designed to realistically simulate
terrorist recruiting and training
techniques, and operational tactics.
About sixty Special Forces, Secret
Service, marines, FBI agents,
independent contractors, and other
hand-picked attendees will spend the
next week learning to think and act
like terrorists so they can better
understand and anticipate their
tactics…the course is operated
under the purview of the Terrorism
Research Center.” –Licensed
to Kill, 183. The attendees learn
everything from making bombs to how
to pray as a Muslim, to assaulting a
village, attempting to kill VIP, and
using a truck bomb.
Operating Above and
Outside the Law
Blackwater snagged a
high-profile contract in Iraq to be
the private bodyguards for “the
Bush administration’s top man in
Baghdad, Ambassador L. Paul Bremer
III. Referred to as the ‘viceroy’
or ‘proconsul,’
Bremer was a diehard freemarketeer
who, like Prince, had converted to
Catholicism and passionately
embraced the neoconservative
agenda of using American military
might to remake the world according
to U. S. interests – all in
the name of democracy…. The
company was now recognized by the
Bush Administration as an essential
part of its war on terror armada.
Blackwater president Gary Jackson, a
career Navy SEAL, would soon boast
that some of Blackwater’s
contracts were so secret
that the company couldn’t tell
one federal agency about the business
it was doing with another agency.”
–Blackwater, 47.
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