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Mercenaries used by Bush, now fighting Obama’s secret wars

Blackwater (Xe): The Secret US War in Pakistan

by Andrew Hobbs, Brittney Gates, Kelsea Arnold

24 July 2012

According to a bipartisan commission report released to the U.S. Congress in February 2011, the heavy reliance on private security companies in current contingency operations, begun during the Bush Administration, has effectively surged under President Barack Obama, raising use-of-force issues (...)