CIA hired a private security company Xe ( former agency Blackwater) for health facilities in Afghanistan.
As reported on Thursday , June 24, newspaper Washington Post, details of the agreement under classified secret. According to the publication , the contract is approximately $ 100 million .
According to sources close to negotiations , Xe would " make safety and security features in the region . However, the CIA reported that company staff will be involved in operations in the country .
However, the Afghan Taliban have already announced last month that " CIA agents and mercenaries from Blackwater were infamous task in the long-term U.S. strategy to destabilize the situation in the region .
Blackwater was founded in 1996 as a private security firm. In September 2007, several employees of Blackwater, hired by the U.S. government to protect the embassy and other targets in Iraq, shot dead 17 civilians without cause Iraqi citizens. In 2010, Iraqi authorities expelled 250 former and current employees of Blackwater from the country.
Later an American court made the allegations several former employees of Blackwater under " manslaughter "," carelessly attempt to commit murder " and " exceeding official authority to use weapons. "
In 2009 the post went to Blackwater CEO Erik Prince , the company changed its name to Xe Services, is also the name of the US Training Center.
Blackwater has repeatedly opynyalasya Earlier in the center of media attention . In mid December 2009 the New York Times wrote that the company was involved in kidnapping operations , suspected of links with militants in Iraq. For six months prior to this in the press has information that Blackwater is a "special team of killers , " which - to eliminate or capture of leaders Al -Qaeda.
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