Blackwater Growth Eyeball

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20 August 2009. Eyeball of the growth to May 2008:

xe-08-growth.htm      Xe Blackwater Growth Eyeball                     August 20, 2009

15 June 2008

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From: Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, Jeremy Scahill, revised and updated 2008:

"In fiscal year 2001, Blackwater had $736,906 in federal contracts. By 2006, Blackwater had over $593 million in governmental contracts, an increase of more than 80,000%." -- Congressional Oversight Committee.

By 2008 Blackwater had over $1 billion in government contracts (an increase from 2001 of more than 135,000%).

These photos show the growth at the main Blackwater training site near Moyock, NC, along with the Blackwater North site near Mount Carroll, IL.

Associated Press Photos and Captions

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Mohammed Abdul-Razzaq, left, the father of Ali, the 9-year-old boy killed in the Sept. 16, 2007, shooting in Baghdad involving Blackwater Worldwide contractors, leaves the federal courthouse in Washington with prosecutor Stephen Ponticiello, right, Tuesday, May 27, 2008. At back center is another unidentified Iraqi who also appeared before a federal grand jury investigating the deadly Sept. 16 shooting in Baghdad. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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** FILE ** In this Sept. 20, 2007, file photo Hassan Jabir, 37, recovers from gunshot wounds in a hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, received in his car in the Mansour neighborhood when guards in a U.S. State Department convoy opened fire, shooting him four times. The Security contractor, Blackwater Worldwide, which an angry Iraqi government blames for the shooting deaths of 17 civilians in the incedent, is not expected to face criminal charges, all but ensuring the company will keep its multimillion dollar contract to protect U.S. diplomats, according to people close to the investigation. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed/File)

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Blackwater employees practice their reaction to a car ambush, Friday, Feb. 20, 2004, on Blackwater's rural northeastern North Carolina property near Moyock, N.C. Blackwater, founded in 1998 by a trio of former Navy SEALs, is considered a top company in the private defense field. It has roughly 450 armed specialists in Iraq, most former U.S. special operations troops and police SWAT team members. Its workers guard people such as Paul Bremer, the top U.S. civilian administrator in Iraq. (AP Photo/Karen Tam)
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Blackwater USA employees receive instruction along a make-shift street scene before practicing a vehicle ambush response drill, Friday Feb. 20, 2004, on Blackwater's land near Moyock, N.C. Blackwater, founded in 1998 by a trio of former Navy SEALs, is considered a top company in the private defense field. It has roughly 450 armed specialists in Iraq, most former U.S. special operations troops and police SWAT team members. Its workers guard people such as Paul Bremer, the top U.S. civilian administrator in Iraq. (AP Photo/Karen Tam)

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** FILE ** A sign at the entrance to Blackwater USA, in Moyock N.C., is shown in this Jan. 23, 2007, file photo. Amid investigations into fatal shootings of civilians and allegations of tax violations, Blackwater USA's multimillion-dollar contract to protect diplomats in Baghdad has been renewed, the State Department said Friday April 4, 2008. (AP Photo/The Daily Advance, Joon Powell, FILE)
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Two security guards stand at the gate of Blackwater Security Consulting facility in Moyock, N.C., on Wednesday, March 31, 2004. Four civilians who were killed and dragged through the streets of an Iraqi town Wednesday worked for Blackwater, which is providing security in a hostile area of Iraq. Blackwater provides security training and guard services to customers around the world. (AP Photo/The Virginian-Pilot, Steve Earley)

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An entrance to the Blackwater Security Consulting Firearms Training Center in Moyock, N.C., is shown Wednesday, March 31, 2004. The four civilians who were killed and dragged through the streets of an Iraqi town Wednesday worked for the North Carolina subcontractor that is providing security in a hostile area of Iraq. Blackwater Security Consulting provides security training and guard services to customers around the world. (AP Photo/Yoon S. Byun)
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Marty Huffstickler of Moyock, N.C, a part-time electrician at Blackwater Security Consulting, whose home neighbors Blackwater property, an area that begins at right, talks outside of his home Wednesday, March 31, 2004, in Moyok, N.C., about the four civilians who were killed and dragged through the streets of an Iraqi town Wednesday that worked for Blackwater. Blackwater is a North Carolina subcontractor that is providing security in a hostile area of Iraq. (AP Photo/Yoon S. Byun)

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A farm is shown on land owned by the Charles and Alma Kruetzkamp's revocable trust that is in escrow to Blackwater USA, a private security firm that wants to build a military training center on the 824 acres about 45 miles west of San Diego in Potrero, Calif. Blackwater USA would turn chicken coops into firing ranges, augmented with a tactical driving track, a ship simulator, a rescue safety training tower and a helipad, according to company documents filed with San Diego County. (AP Photo/San Diego Union-Tribune John R. McCutchen) Mandatory Credit: San Diego Union-Tribune John R. McCutchen
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A farm is shown on land owned by the Charles and Alma Kruetzkamp's revocable trust that is in escrow to Blackwater USA, a private security firm that wants to build a military training center on the 824 acres about 45 miles west of San Diego in Potrero, Calif. Blackwater USA would turn chicken coops into firing ranges, augmented with a tactical driving track, a ship simulator, a rescue safety training tower and a helipad, according to company documents filed with San Diego County. (AP Photo/San Diego Union-Tribune John R. McCutchen) Mandatory Credit: San Diego Union-Tribune John R. McCutchen

Blackwater Growth

Eyeball

Blackwater Site, Moyock, NC, 7 March 1993

http://terraserver-usa.com/image.aspx?T=1&S=13&Z=18&X=245&Y=2521&W=3&qs=%7celizabeth+city%7cnc%7c

Blackwater, Moyock, NC, Site 17 March 1998

http://seamless.usgs.gov/website/seamless/viewer.htm

Blackwater Site, Moyock, NC, 2003

ftp://204.211.239.203/outgoing/raster/local_imagery/camden2003/sid/8919.sid .. 8929.sid .. 8939.sid (composite)

Blackwater Site, Moyock, NC, c. 2005

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=36.455348,-76.197543&z=14&t=h&hl=en

Blackwater Site, Moyock, NC, c. 2005

http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCP&cp=36.453374~-76.192417&style=h&lvl=15&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&encType=1

Blackwater Site, Moyock, NC, c. 2006

http://www.mapquest.com/maps/elizabeth+city+nc/#a/maps/l:::Elizabeth+City:NC::US:36.301899:-76.223602:
city:Pasquotank+County/m:sat:11:36.452717:-76.195516:0::/io:0:::::f:EN:M:/e

Blackwater Site, Moyock, NC, 15 August 2006

http://seamless.usgs.gov/website/seamless/viewer.htm

Blackwater North, 11311 S Skunk Hollow Rd, Mount Carroll, IL

http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCP&cp=42.20704~-89.947171&style=h&lvl=16&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&encType=1
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Blackwater North, Mount Carroll, IL

http://seamless.usgs.gov/website/seamless/viewer.htm

Residence of Erik D. Prince, Owner of Blackwater, 1106 Mill Ridge, Mclean, VA 22102

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Associated Press Photos and Captions
Mohammed Abdul-Razzaq, left, the father of Ali, the 9-year-old boy killed in the Sept. 16, 2007, shooting in Baghdad involving Blackwater Worldwide contractors, leaves the federal courthouse in Washington with prosecutor Stephen Ponticiello, right, Tuesday, May 27, 2008. At back center is another unidentified Iraqi who also appeared before a federal grand jury investigating the deadly Sept. 16 shooting in Baghdad. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)	FILE In this Sept. 20, 2007, file photo Hassan Jabir, 37, recovers from gunshot wounds in a hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, received in his car in the Mansour neighborhood when guards in a U.S. State Department convoy opened fire, shooting him four times. The Security contractor, Blackwater Worldwide, which an angry Iraqi government blames for the shooting deaths of 17 civilians in the incedent, is not expected to face criminal charges, all but ensuring the company will keep its multimillion dollar contract to protect U.S. diplomats, according to people close to the investigation. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed/File)
Blackwater employees practice their reaction to a car ambush, Friday, Feb. 20, 2004, on Blackwater's rural northeastern North Carolina property near Moyock, N.C. Blackwater, founded in 1998 by a trio of former Navy SEALs, is considered a top company in the private defense field. It has roughly 450 armed specialists in Iraq, most former U.S. special operations troops and police SWAT team members. Its workers guard people such as Paul Bremer, the top U.S. civilian administrator in Iraq. (AP Photo/Karen Tam)	Blackwater USA employees receive instruction along a make-shift street scene before practicing a vehicle ambush response drill, Friday Feb. 20, 2004, on Blackwater's land near Moyock, N.C. Blackwater, founded in 1998 by a trio of former Navy SEALs, is considered a top company in the private defense field. It has roughly 450 armed specialists in Iraq, most former U.S. special operations troops and police SWAT team members. Its workers guard people such as Paul Bremer, the top U.S. civilian administrator in Iraq. (AP Photo/Karen Tam)
FILE A sign at the entrance to Blackwater USA, in Moyock N.C., is shown in this Jan. 23, 2007, file photo. Amid investigations into fatal shootings of civilians and allegations of tax violations, Blackwater USA's multimillion-dollar contract to protect diplomats in Baghdad has been renewed, the State Department said Friday April 4, 2008. (AP Photo/The Daily Advance, Joon Powell, FILE)	Two security guards stand at the gate of Blackwater Security Consulting facility in Moyock, N.C., on Wednesday, March 31, 2004. Four civilians who were killed and dragged through the streets of an Iraqi town Wednesday worked for Blackwater, which is providing security in a hostile area of Iraq. Blackwater provides security training and guard services to customers around the world. (AP Photo/The Virginian-Pilot, Steve Earley)
An entrance to the Blackwater Security Consulting Firearms Training Center in Moyock, N.C., is shown Wednesday, March 31, 2004. The four civilians who were killed and dragged through the streets of an Iraqi town Wednesday worked for the North Carolina subcontractor that is providing security in a hostile area of Iraq. Blackwater Security Consulting provides security training and guard services to customers around the world. (AP Photo/Yoon S. Byun)	Marty Huffstickler of Moyock, N.C, a part-time electrician at Blackwater Security Consulting, whose home neighbors Blackwater property, an area that begins at right, talks outside of his home Wednesday, March 31, 2004, in Moyok, N.C., about the four civilians who were killed and dragged through the streets of an Iraqi town Wednesday that worked for Blackwater. Blackwater is a North Carolina subcontractor that is providing security in a hostile area of Iraq. (AP Photo/Yoon S. Byun)
A farm is shown on land owned by the Charles and Alma Kruetzkamp's revocable trust that is in escrow to Blackwater USA, a private security firm that wants to build a military training center on the 824 acres about 45 miles west of San Diego in Potrero, Calif. Blackwater USA would turn chicken coops into firing ranges, augmented with a tactical driving track, a ship simulator, a rescue safety training tower and a helipad, according to company documents filed with San Diego County. (AP Photo/San Diego Union-Tribune John R. McCutchen) Mandatory Credit: San Diego Union-Tribune John R. McCutchen	A farm is shown on land owned by the Charles and Alma Kruetzkamp's revocable trust that is in escrow to Blackwater USA, a private security firm that wants to build a military training center on the 824 acres about 45 miles west of San Diego in Potrero, Calif. Blackwater USA would turn chicken coops into firing ranges, augmented with a tactical driving track, a ship simulator, a rescue safety training tower and a helipad, according to company documents filed with San Diego County. (AP Photo/San Diego Union-Tribune John R. McCutchen) Mandatory Credit: San Diego Union-Tribune John R. McCutchen