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Reflecting on my time as a blackwater mercenary in iraq. Blackwater, iraq and president trumps pardon the new. Learn more about great on kindle, available in select categories. Academi is an american private military company founded in 1997 by former navy seal officer erik prince as blackwater, renamed as xe services in 2009 and known as academi since 2011 after the company was acquired by a group of private investors. Mar 02, 2020 in a widely noted 2008 book titled blackwater. Blackwater would break ground in june of 1997 after establishing the location of the training facility in moyock and carefully selecting his handpicked team to run the.
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