Operating under the oversight of a distinguished Board and an experienced management team, the combination of these companies will enable a significant expansion of services within the global security market, delivering mission support, integrated security solutions, training and advisory services at home and abroad. Attorney General and current Board member John Ashcroft. We share a commitment to flawless delivery of mission critical services. We share a bond with our employees, who are mostly decorated veterans who continue to serve their country in the private sector.
We share a willingness to do the toughest jobs in support of the efforts to make our world a better place. With fewer contracts coming from Iraq and Afghanistan, consolidation across the security business means that the State Department — which remains heavily dependent on private-sector guards for its embassies and consulates — has a smaller and smaller number of companies from which to choose.
That, in turn, means big profits for the remaining heavyweights, including those that own what had once been Blackwater. In addition to protecting U. The site features multiple firing ranges, a three-mile driving track, and two airfields.
Triple Canopy is one of several private security companies hired by the State Department to protect its embassies and consulates around the world. Embassy in Baghdad.
Consulate in Basra in Iraq. But with Blackwater in the news again, questions are once again being raised about the role of these companies and whether governments that are excessively reliant on their services are able to properly oversee them. The answer: "No … Erik Prince took both the Blackwater name and legacy with him when he sold the facility. And in response to a request for comment, Triple Canopy said, "We respectfully decline the interview since we have no direct connection with the subject matter.
They are also going native, as warlords and others refashion themselves as for-rent security. A former U. Navy SEAL, Prince founded Blackwater in when he bought up land in North Carolina and built a training site for military and law enforcement officials.
Blackwater was hired by the Navy to train U. The public first became aware of Blackwater in , when four of its employees were killed, their bodies burned and hung from a bridge in Fallujah. Then on Christmas Eve in , an off-duty Blackwater employee shot and killed an Iraqi security guard inside the Green Zone, increasing pressure on the Bush administration to hold private security contractors accountable for crimes committed in war zones.
Prince tried to rebrand the company, renaming it Xe Services in The company is still operating under its original name and its website lists offices in Chesapeake, Virginia, and Abu Dhabi. But he said he was mostly busy "running a small fund and investing in Africa.
His small fund is called Frontier Resource Group, a private equity firm based in Abu Dhabi, which has a contract with the South Sudanese government to build an oil refinery. The project was temporarily put on hold earlier this year, when the security situation in the country grew too dangerous. While Prince pursued projects overseas, the firearms charges over the former Blackwater employees did not go away. That is, until this February, when most of the charges were dismissed after retired CIA officials testified the weapons had been given to the Jordanian king with the authorization of the CIA.
Stanley McChrystal after he retired in Nixon retired from the Army in ; his final assignment was as the deputy director of operations responsible for force protection for the U.
Central Command. This is inevitable, Pelton said, because the government has a bizarre love-hate relationship with these companies. An earlier version of this story incorrectly called the company International Development Services.
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