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Blackwater, the security firm founded by Holland native Erik Prince, finds itself in more hot water.

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NY Times: Blackwater used shell companies, subsidiaries to win government contracts

The Taliban says they would continue to target Pakistani security forces with suicide attacks as they claimed responsibility for the latest blast.

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Taliban to continue Pakistan attacks

The TTP frequently claims responsibility for attacks on Pakistani security forces but generally denies those that target civilians. — Photo by AP MIRAMSHAH: The Taliban said Tuesday they would continue to target Pakistani security forces with suicide attacks as they claimed responsibility for the latest blast that killed 19, its spokesman said.

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TTP says it will continue suicide attacks in Pakistan

The Taliban said Tuesday they would continue to target Pakistani security forces with suicide attacks as they claimed responsibility for the latest blast that killed 19, its spokesman said.

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Taliban says it will continue Pakistan suicide attacks

(RTTNews) – A suspected US drone strike has left at least five people dead in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal belt near the Afghan border, local news reports quoting unnamed officials said Monday.

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Reports: US Drone Strike Kills Five Militants In Northwestern Pakistan

A US drone on Monday fired two missiles at a vehicle carrying militants in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal area, near the Afghan border, killing five rebels, officials said.

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US drone kills five in NW Pakistan: officials

The U.S. military is mounting a massive effort to help teach Afghan soldiers and police to read after concluding that literacy is “the essential enabler” to the local security forces’ success.

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U.S. targets illiteracy among Afghan forces – Army News | News from Afghanistan & Iraq – Army Times

RAMALLAH, West Bank, Sept. 6 (UPI) — Palestinians living in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip have one of the highest rates of population growth in the world, the Central Bureau of Statistics said. West Bank – Gaza Strip – Middle East – Palestinian Territory – Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics

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Palestinian population shows rapid growth

General Mohammad Qasim Fahim, a prominent Afghan military commander, politician and vice president to Afghan leader Hamid Karzai, has reportedly died in France.

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Afghan vice president dies of cancer

A Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) memo released by WikiLeaks last month has revealed Washington’s long tradition of exporting terrorism abroad, supported by radical American Jews.

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American Jews ‘export terrorism’

LAST MONTH, the nation marked the arrival over a hundred years ago of a group of American educators who were sent in 1901 to establish a public school system in the Philippines.

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The good and the bad

A belief by Westerners that Afghans expect misrule and malfeasance could make Afghans’ contempt for their leaders as much a threat as the Taliban.

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Inside Corrupt-istan, a Loss of Faith in Leaders

A US drone strike on Saturday killed eight militants including three foreign fighters in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal belt near the Afghan border, security officials said.

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US drone strike kills eight militants in Pakistan: officials

The Central Intelligence Agency has scoffed at an internal memo that cites a few terrorist acts by some American citizens as possibly causing foreign nations to see the United States as an “exporter of terrorism.”

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CIA’s ‘Red Cell’ Hypocrisy on Terror

NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON – Blackwater Worldwide created a web of more than 30 shell firms or subsidiaries in part to obtain millions of dollars in U.S. government contracts after the security company came under intense criticism for reckless conduct in Iraq, according to congressional investigators and former Blackwater officials. While it is unclear how many of those businesses won contracts …

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Officials: Blackwater contractor had web of shell firms

Network let it obscure involvement from contracting officials and public.

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Blackwater Won Contracts With Web Of Companies

WASHINGTON — Blackwater Worldwide created a web of more than 30 shell companies or subsidiaries in part to obtain millions of dollars in U.S. government contracts after the security company came under intense criticism for reckless conduct in Iraq, according to congressional investigators and former Blackwater officials.

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Blackwater covertly won U.S. contracts

By James Risen and Mark Mazzetti WASHINGTON Blackwater Worldwide created a web of more than 30 shell companies or subsidiaries in part to obtain millions of dollars in U.S. government contracts after the security company came under intense criticism for reckless conduct in Iraq, according to congressional investigators and former Blackwater officials.

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Blackwater affiliates covertly won government work

Report: Blackwater created 30 shell companies to get gov’t work after Iraq shootings Iraq – Blackwater Worldwide – Central Intelligence Agency – New York Times – Middle East

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Report: Blackwater Created Shell Companies

Report: Blackwater created 30 shell companies to get gov’t work after Iraq shootings Iraq – Blackwater Worldwide – Central Intelligence Agency – New York Times – Middle East

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Blackwater Used Shell Companies to Get Work