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Xe Watch
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 Blackwater Watch (now known as Xe Watch to match the change in company name) is a non-profit, non-governmental watchdog organization derived from North Carolina Stop Torture Now in 2007 to monitor Blackwater Worldwide, plus private armies and mercenaries with respect to human rights, legal immunity, cronyism, war profiteering, lobbying, war, and conflict.
In September 2007 the organization brought investigative journalist and 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.[1][2]
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 Nisour Square massacre of September 16, 2007. Headquartered in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, WCSR is the third lobbying firm hired by Blackwater since October 2007.
Blackwater Watch representatives have been quoted in The Seattle Times,[3], the Chicago Tribune[4] and The Guardian.[5]
References
- ↑ press coverage
- ↑ film of the event on YouTube
- ↑ "Blackwater shooting incident — bane or boon?" Seattle Times, 20 September 2007
- ↑ "Blackwater in gray area again", the Chicago Tribune 19 September 2007
- ↑ "Iraq's hired hands under fire as the pot of gold starts to run low", the Guardian, 22 September 2007
External links
- Blackwater Watch official website
- Human Rights First; Private Security Contractors at War: Ending the Culture of Impunity (2008)
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