Blackwater Offers Training to 'Faith Based Organizations'

By GottaLaff

Via Jeremy Scahill:

Meet the “Personal Security Awareness” program, which appears to be an off-shoot of Erik Prince’s Greystone, Ltd., a classic mercenary operation registered offshore in Barbados. [...] [T]he “program” is described as “a multi-phase course which is designed to assist Non-Government Organizations, Faith Based Organizations and Commercial Businesses by providing individual personal awareness and driver training for their personnel when deployed to unfamiliar environments.” It adds: “Greystone recognizes the importance of “preparation by doing” and looks forward to you joining us for this exciting training!”

Oh boy! Exciting faith based training! And from Blackwater!

Are they serious? I’m sure there are just scores of Islamic aid groups just lining up to take courses from Blackwater, Xe, US Training Center, Greystone, Personal Security Awareness.

Xe ya later.

Moreover, any legitimate “faith based organization” that wants harmony with other faiths would be insane to work with this company.

That would be cra-Xe, alright.

One of the courses offered is described as teaching “persons traveling to foreign environments how to remain safe during their travels in a vehicle.” This truly is surreal. [...] Remember how those unarmed Iraqi civilians were blown up in their car by Blackwater operatives at Nisour Square? Or the Afghan civilians allegedly killed in their car by Blackwater operatives in Afghanistan in May?

Yeah, somehow that whole Blackwater/car thing wasn't a good match. This can't end well.

Also, lets remember that Blackwater—headed by a man described in a sworn statement by a former employee as “view[ing] himself as a Christian crusader tasked with eliminating Muslims and the Islamic faith from the globe”— is itself a twisted faith-based organization—and a very violent one at that.

I hope the ObamAdministration finally Xe's the light and breaks the contract they have with this bunch of thugs. I still need a good talking down from that one.

For a hard look at who these people are, see my Blackwater for Dummeez primer.

Read the rest of Jeremy's piece here.