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Who could have imagined that a company of hired mercenaries would turn into a bunch of sociopaths bent on hiding their murderous rampages and corrupt contracts?<\/p>\n

“A former Blackwater employee and an ex-US Marine who has worked as a security operative for the company have made a series of explosive allegations in sworn statements filed on August 3 in federal court in Virginia. The two men claim that the company’s owner, Erik Prince, may have murdered or facilitated the murder of individuals who were cooperating with federal authorities investigating the company. The former employee also alleges that Prince “views himself as a Christian crusader tasked with eliminating Muslims and the Islamic faith from the globe,” and that Prince’s companies “encouraged and rewarded the destruction of Iraqi life.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And that’s just the start of it. Read Jeremy Scahill’s great article in the Nation, Blackwater Founder Implicated in Murder<\/em><\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Who could have imagined that a company of hired mercenaries would turn into a bunch of sociopaths bent on hiding their murderous rampages and corrupt contracts? “A former Blackwater employee and an ex-US Marine who has worked as a security operative for the company have made a series of explosive allegations in sworn statements filed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[259],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nKilling In The Name Of US of Jesus - Prose Before Hos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Who could have imagined that a company of hired mercenaries would turn into a bunch of sociopaths bent on hiding their murderous rampages and corrupt\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/link-of-the-day\/08\/07\/killing-in-the-name-of-us-of-jesus\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Killing In The Name Of US of Jesus - 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