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Academi, formerly known as Blackwater, is an American private military contractor founded on December 26, 1996, [2] by former Navy SEAL officer Erik Prince. [3] [4] It was renamed Xe Services in 2009, and was again renamed to Academi in 2011, after it was acquired by a group of private investors. [5]
Erik Dean Prince (born June 6, 1969) is an American businessman, former U.S. Navy SEAL officer, and the founder of the private military company Blackwater. He served as Blackwater's CEO until 2009 and as its chairman until its sale to a group of investors in 2010.
355.3/540973 22. LC Class. DS79.76 .S322 2007. Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army is a book written by independent journalist Jeremy Scahill, published by Nation Books in 2007, as a history and analysis of Blackwater USA, now called Constellis Holdings. It won one of the 2007 George Polk Awards.
The Nisour Square massacre occurred on September 16, 2007, when employees of Blackwater Security Consulting (now Constellis ), a private military company contracted by the US government to provide security services in Iraq, shot at Iraqi civilians, killing 17 and injuring 20 in Nisour Square, Baghdad, while escorting a U.S. embassy convoy.
Blackwater. (TV series) Blackwater is a Scandinavian television drama made for SVT and ITV Studios by Piv Bernth and Apple Tree Productions. It is an adaptation by Maren Louise Käehne and Karin Arrhenius of Kerstin Ekman 's 1993 novel of the same name. It is directed by Arrhenius and Mikael Marcimain, and stars Pernilla August.
Blackwater is a rural town and locality in the Central Highlands Region, Queensland, Australia. [2] [3] In the 2021 census, the locality of Blackwater had a population of 4,702 people. [4] It is a town in a significant coal mining area in Central Queensland. The name of the township was inspired by the dark colour of local waterholes.
Black water (drink) Bottle and glass of black water. Black water is a type of bottled alkaline water containing fulvic acid (FvA) and other mineral or vitamin additives. The water is named for its dark and opaque appearance, owing to the addition of the FvA. [1] It has gained popularity as a health trend and status symbol.
May 23, 2015. Alfred Clark was a founder of the private security firm Blackwater, along with Erik Prince . They created Blackwater in 1997 as a business for assuming some of the roles once played by the public sector military, most notably providing security for American and British officials in the Iraq War. Clark joined the United States Navy ...