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To: Webster Groves who wrote (271808)	12/7/2009 12:02:17 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Why does Xe talk about Blackwater ? Didn't you say there is no such company. Because Blackwater changed it's name to Xe.. Thus, "technically speaking", Blackwater no longer exists.. ;0) But for some reason, these Pakistani reporters apparently never got the "news", or they opted to use the old name in order to create some kind of bias, whether deserved or not. PS - what outrage are you speaking of ? You're correct.. My apologies.. I was working a couple of posts at the same time and got you confused with someone else. Sorry. I continue to stand by the opinion that Xe, or any other private security company being paid by the US Gov't, would not be operating in Pakistan without some form of tacit approval from the Pakistani government. If they are, this administration has truly committed one hell of a diplomatic "faux pas". And the US Ambassador to Pakistan would be humiliated and raising unholy hell. But then again, since Xe is a private company, we really don't know who's paying them. They could be working for some private Pakistani party who needs their security expertise. And were they an non-US based corporation, would anyone be raising a stink? Btw, I have a mixed opinion of such armed security corporations. I can certainly see their value for proving in-country security support for indigenous government officials, especially when they're not sure if they can trust their own security services to protect them from assassination. But there certainly is the concept of a "supra-national" conflict of interest that could exist if they are working contracts for two rival nations. But lots of important executives hire private security and bodyguards and that could be what these guys, if they are there at all, are doing. Anyway.. I just found it laughable that these Pakistani reporters were demanding that the US Embassy be searched. That's just NOT GOING TO HAPPEN (not without armed resistance and severe consequences). Hawk