U.S. Commandos’ New Landlord in Afghanistan: Blackwater

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Danger Room/Wired, 5 December 2012
‘U.S. Special Operations Forces have a brand new home in Afghanistan’ writes the security blog Danger Room. It’s owned and operated by the security company formerly known as Blackwater, now called Academi, ‘thanks to a no-bid deal worth $22 million. […] Academi’s private 10-acre compound outside Kabul, called Camp Integrity, is the new headquarters for perhaps the most important special operations unit in Afghanistan’, the Special Operations Joint Task Force–Afghanistan, created on 1 July (see earlier AAN blog), commanded by Gen Thomas, with some 7,000 elite troops in all.Danger Room/Wired, 5 December 2012
‘U.S. Special Operations Forces have a brand new home in Afghanistan’ writes the security blog Danger Room. It’s owned and operated by the security company formerly known as Blackwater, now called Academi, ‘thanks to a no-bid deal worth $22 million. […] Academi’s private 10-acre compound outside Kabul, called Camp Integrity, is the new headquarters for perhaps the most important special operations unit in Afghanistan’, the Special Operations Joint Task Force–Afghanistan, created on 1 July (see earlier AAN blog), commanded by Gen Thomas, with some 7,000 elite troops in all.