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| − | :Xe, previously Blackwater, has changed its name AGAIN to [[Academi]] [[Wikipedia:Academi|(WP)]]. Academi Watch has the same website and website name as they did at the beginning, see below. What can I say, I can't be everywhere at once, and I missed the AfD for Xe Watch. The AfD was a joke, with Tokyogirl saying that the only articles written about the group was its formation. It was not formation, it was name change, to keep up with Blackwater/Xe/Academi. So badly informed, so opinionated. Or more likely, deliberately misleading. And a ditto from a user [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Questionable_pulse/Archive who has since been banned as a sockpuppet]. And that's all, for an article about the only watchdogs dedicated to eyes on the most dangerous military force in the world. But that's AfD for you.
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| − | ''An article on this subject has been proposed for deletion in 2007 and again in 2010. A merge proposal tag remains on the article as of Feb 2011 [[Wikipedia:Talk:Blackwater Watch]]''
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| − | '''Blackwater Watch''' (now known as '''Xe Watch''' to match the change in company name) is a [[Non-profit organization|non-profit]], [[Non-governmental organization|non-governmental]] [[wikt:watchdog|watchdog]] organization derived from [[North Carolina Stop Torture Now]] in 2007 to monitor [[Blackwater Worldwide]], plus [[Paramilitary|private armies]] and [[Mercenary|mercenaries]] with respect to [[human rights]], [[Immunity from prosecution|legal immunity]], [[cronyism]], [[war profiteering]], [[lobbying]], [[war]], and [[War|conflict]].
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| − | In September 2007 the organization brought [[Investigative journalism|investigative journalist]] and ''[[Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army|Blackwater]]'' author [[Jeremy Scahill]] to [[North Carolina Central University]]. In October 2007 Blackwater Watch and the [[Catholic Worker Movement]] staged the first-ever demonstration at Blackwater headquarters in [[Moyock, North Carolina|Moyock]], [[North Carolina]].<ref>[http://blackwaterwatch.net/oct20_moyock_action.htm press coverage]</ref><ref>[http://www.youtube.com/verify_age?next_url=/watch%3Fv%3DQNTLaJe_JCI/ film of the event] on [[YouTube]]</ref>
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| − | The headquarters of the lobbying firm [[Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice]] was the target of a Blackwater Watch-organized protest and held on the one-year anniversary of the [[Blackwater Baghdad shootings|Nisour Square massacre]] of September 16, 2007. Headquartered in [[Winston-Salem, North Carolina|Winston-Salem]], North Carolina, WCSR is the third lobbying firm hired by Blackwater since October 2007.
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| − | Blackwater Watch representatives have been quoted in ''[[The Seattle Times]]'',<ref>"[http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=iraq20&date=20070920&query=blackwater+watch Blackwater shooting incident — bane or boon?]" Seattle Times, 20 September 2007</ref>, the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]''<ref>"[http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/1337955741.html?dids=1337955741:1337955741&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Sep+19%2C+2007&author=EA+Torriero&pub=Chicago+Tribune&edition=&startpage=10&desc=Blackwater+in+gray+area+again Blackwater in gray area again]", the Chicago Tribune 19 September 2007</ref> and ''[[The Guardian]]''.<ref>"[http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2174510,00.html Iraq's hired hands under fire as the pot of gold starts to run low]", the Guardian, 22 September 2007</ref>
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| − | ==References==
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| − | [[File:Blackwater Logo 2007.png|thumb|250px|Blackwater logo, 2007]]
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| − | ==External links==
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| − | * [http://blackwaterwatch.net/ Blackwater Watch official website]
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| − | * Human Rights First; [http://www.humanrightsfirst.info/pdf/08115-usls-psc-final.pdf Private Security Contractors at War: Ending the Culture of Impunity (2008)]
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