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At least ONE group of Xe (forally Blackwater) employees got what they deserve.

Two former Blackwater operatives were arrested by US federal agents on murder charges, stemming from their alleged involvement in the shooting deaths of two Afghan civilians in Kabul in May. They have been identified as Justin Cannon, 27, of Corpus Christi, Texas, and Christopher Drotleff, 29, of Virginia Beach, Va. They have been charged with “crimes including second-degree murder, attempted murder and firearms offenses while working as contractors for the U.S. Department of Defense in Afghanistan,” according to the Justice Department. The 13-count indictment was returned by a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia on Jan. 6 and unsealed today.
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In May, reports emerged that four Blackwater/Xe operatives working for Paravant LLC were alleged to have fired on a civilian car they say they saw as a threat, killing at least one Afghan civilian. According to The Wall Street Journal’s August Cole

via Rebel Reports

A chimp that deliberately fashions discs of concrete to later hurl at zoo visitors is being hailed as definitive proof that the apes plan for future events.
Although similar claims have previously been made about chimps using tools to collect food, what sets Santino – a 30-year-old chimp from Furuvik zoo in Sweden – apart, is that his behaviour, and therefore his apparent state of mind, when collecting the ammunition seems markedly different from when he launches his attacks.
"The chimp has without exception been calm during gathering or manufacture of the ammunition, in contrast to the typically aroused state [when he throws the rocks]," says Mathias Osvath of the University of Lund, also in Sweden.

So, we are not the only beings that create and stockpile weapons for battle. As Jane Goodall states in Ervin Laszlo's Science and the Reenchantment of the Cosmos, "Sadly, also like us, they [chimps] have a dark side: they are aggressively territorial, and may perform acts of extreme brutality and even wage a kind of primative war." Perhaps the chimpanzees will help us "tone down" the primate races so that another species may rise in our place.

via New Scientist

Xe (Blackwater) employees arrested by FBI on murder and weapons charges

Missile-throwing chimp plots attacks on tourists - How did I miss this story?

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