McClatchy: Feds won’t charge Blackwater in Sudan sanctions case

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The security contractor Blackwater Worldwide tried for two years to secure lucrative defense business in Southern Sudan while the country was under U.S. economic sanctions. The effort to drum up new business in East Africa by Blackwater owner Erik Prince became a major element in a continuing four-year federal investigation into allegations of sanctions violations, illegal exports and bribery.

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Wired: Osama-Hunter Only the Latest Terror-Fightin’ Wannabe

Gary Brooks Faulkner, the ex-construction worker turned rogue terrorist-hunter who was recently arrested in Pakistan, is not the first to take up a freelance role in the war on terror.

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