Blackwater: Must Be Charged With Murder & Fraud

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Erik Prince, the owner of Blackwater which is now known as Xe Services LLC, is accused of murder, fraud, and illegal arms smuggling, all while engaged in providing protective services in Iraq.

Blackwater contracted with the US State Department to provide protection for US employees in Iraq. Not only did Blackwater provide those services but they openly engaged in the wanton murder of innocent Iraqi citizens on a daily basis and under the cover of “essential protective operations.”

Prince and Blackwater are alleged to have planned the murder of Iraqi’s because “they are Muslims and Muslims should be exterminated” and applied this philosophy to all of their deployed personnel in Iraq.

Blackwater personnel video taped the daily executions of innocent Iraqi’s and held a “hot wash” session at the end of the day for personnel to view the murders that had been carried out and then each video tape was erased to destroy the evidence.

Prince allegedly considers himself a “Christian crusader” with a self-declared mission to kill all Muslims. In addition, Prince is alleged to have orchestrated the murder of US government personnel who were investigating the allegations made against him.

In five separate lawsuits filed in the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia, by the Center for Constitutional Rights in behalf of Iraqi citizens, former and current employees of Prince have provided affidavits under penalty of perjury in support of the litigation.

U.S. Congressman Dennis Kucinich has received copies of the lawsuits and in response stated, "If these allegations are true, Blackwater has been a criminal enterprise defrauding taxpayers and murdering innocent civilians from the very beginning."

"Blackwater is a law unto itself, acting above the law both internationally and domestically. The question is how they could operate with impunity? In addition to Blackwater, we should be questioning their patrons in the previous administration who funded and employed this organization. Blackwater wouldn't exist without federal patronage; these allegations must be thoroughly investigated," Kucinich said.

Kucinich is on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and has been investigating Erik Prince and the Blackwater organization since 2004.

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