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Academi, formerly known as Blackwater and Blackwater Worldwide, is an American private military contractor founded on December 26, 1997, [2] by former Navy SEAL officer Erik Prince. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It was renamed Xe Services in 2009, and was again renamed to Academi in 2011, after it was acquired by a group of private investors. [ 5 ]
The 2004 Fallujah ambush occurred on March 31, 2004, when Iraqi insurgents attacked a convoy containing four American contractors from the private military company Blackwater USA who were conducting a delivery for food caterers ESS. [1]
The Bulgarians were working as helicopter pilots, while the rest were working for Blackwater Security as PMCs. [70] American, Curtis Hundley, was killed by a roadside bomb near Ramadi. He was working for Blackwater Security as a PMC. [71] Briton, Alan Parkin, was killed by a suicide bomber in Baghdad. He was working for Aegis Defence Services ...
The Nisour Square massacre occurred on September 16, 2007, when employees of Blackwater Security Consulting (now Constellis), a private military company contracted by the United States government to provide security services in Iraq, shot at Iraqi civilians, killing 17 and injuring 20 in Nisour Square, Baghdad, while escorting a U.S. embassy convoy.
Consulting. Formerly known as Blackwater and Xe and it is part of the Constellis Group. American International Security Corp: Woburn, MA: Dissolved Custer Battles: McLean, VA: Iraq and oil sector (at present, have ceased operations in Iraq) Dissolved Jorge Scientific Corporation: Arlington, VA: Consulting KBR: Houston, TX: Formerly a Division ...
Alfred Clark was a founder of the private security firm Blackwater, along with Erik Prince. They created Blackwater in 1997 as a business for assuming some of the roles once played by the public sector military, most notably providing security for American and British officials in the Iraq War. Clark joined the United States Navy in 1983 and ...
This order went against the wishes of the Marine Commanders on the ground who wanted to conduct surgical strikes and raids against those suspected of involvement in the Blackwater deaths. [ 38 ] On the night of 4 April 2004, American forces launched a major assault in an attempt to "re-establish security in Fallujah" by encircling it with ...
Blackwater 61 was the callsign of a CASA 212, registration N960BW, operated by Presidential Airways Inc, the aviation subsidiary of the private security contractor Blackwater USA, that crashed in the mountains of remote central Afghanistan on November 27, 2004.