Monday, December 14, 2009

CIA cancels Blackwater drone missile-loading contract

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8409358.stm

Lol me thinks Prince got a little to cocky. And why isn't the Air Force loading the drones?

The CIA has cancelled a contract with US private security firm Blackwater for its operatives to load bombs onto drone aircraft in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

CIA Director Leon Panetta wanted such work to be done by the organisation's own employees only, officials said.

The New York Times revealed the existence of the secret contract with Blackwater, renamed Xe, in August.

On Thursday, the paper also reported that Xe employees had been involved in "snatch-and-grab operations" in Iraq.