More revelations coming forward on Blackwater’s questionable involvement in CIA covert operations…

RussiaToday reporting in this video “CIA Death Team Plotted Murder in Germany?”

“According to Der Spiegel magazine, a team of Blackwater operatives, hired by the CIA, were allegedly working in Hamburg five years ago. They had a secret mission to kidnap a German citizen with suspected ties to Al-Qaeda and 9/11 terror attacks, the report said.”

But also Blackwater in the news and on trial for Iraqi deaths:

Several victims of a 2007 shooting involving American private security guards employed by the firm formerly known as Blackwater claimed Sunday they were coerced into reaching settlements and demanded the Iraqi government intervene to have the agreements nullified. read more –Iraqis decry settlements in Blackwater shootings – chicagotribune.com.

The CIA has said that it no longer uses Blackwater/Xe but there are questions on this:

A leading member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence has told The Nation that she will launch an investigation into why two Blackwater contractors were among the dead in the December 30 suicide bombing at the CIA station at Forward Operating Base Chapman in Khost, Afghanistan. “The Intelligence Committees and the public were led to believe that the CIA was phasing out its contracts with Blackwater and now we find out that there is this ongoing presence,” said Illinois Democrat Jan Schakowsky, chair of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, in an interview. “Is the CIA once again deceiving us about the relationship with Blackwater?”  Blackwater and the Khost Bombing: Is the CIA Deceiving Congress?.

PressTv just reported on 1/12/10:

Blackwater/Xe mercenaries plan to carry out bombings in Mogadishu in order to accuse Al-Shabab of being the culprits in the attacks, the Al-Shabab spokesman added.

(Keep in mind who owns press-tv.)

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