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Xe, previously Blackwater, has changed its name AGAIN to 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 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 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

Blackwater logo, 2007
  1. ↑ press coverage
  2. ↑ film of the event on YouTube
  3. ↑ "Blackwater shooting incident — bane or boon?" Seattle Times, 20 September 2007
  4. ↑ "Blackwater in gray area again", the Chicago Tribune 19 September 2007
  5. ↑ "Iraq's hired hands under fire as the pot of gold starts to run low", the Guardian, 22 September 2007

External links

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