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Published: 02/23/10

Report: Blackwater Played Fast and Loose With Rules

By  Sharon Weinberger - AOL News
Report: Blackwater Played Fast and Loose With Rules

(Feb. 23) -- Weapons signed out by a character from "South Park," a dangerous joyride with AK-47s and hundreds of missing weapons that had been intended to help equip Afghan security forces. It sounds like a cartoon parody of war, but these are just a few of the problems the Senate Armed Services Committee said it found during a six-month investigation into Xe Services, better known by its former name, Blackwater Worldwide. The investigation's findings are set to be the subject of a Senate hearing Wednesday, but panel Chairman Carl Levin previewed some of the allegations today. The Michigan ...

Published: 09/7/09

Senators Go to War: Sir! Yes, Sir, Senator!

By  David Wood - Politics Daily
Senators Go to War: Sir! Yes, Sir, Senator!

COMBAT OUTPOST ZORMAT, Eastern Afghanistan -- Just about the time the laughter here was dying down, U.S. Sens. Carl Levin and Jack Reed were touching down in Kabul for a whirlwind, suit-and-tie "fact-finding'' tour of the war zone. That was hundreds of miles from this remote U.S. Army base, home to a small, well-armed contingent of soldiers from the 1st Squadron, 40th Cavalry Regiment COP Zormat that was under the onslaught of a slashing evening rainstorm. Turret gunners on the gun trucks returning from patrol were soaked and shivering. The rain beat against the plywood walls of the ...

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