Blackwater has its own air force. Do you suppose anyone checks return flights from Afghanistan for drugs?

Question

All those unregulated private contractors flying in and out -- you want to tell me that NONE of them are taking a share of Afghanistan's $50 billion opium crop? What is Erik Prince doing (if anything) to keep his people out of the drug business?

"It's called US Customs" hahaha! You are a laugh riot! Customs is ALSO being privatized, check this out:

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/090607dntexbprecruiting.35ff674.html

Again, we're talking about a $50 billion annual crop, but its worth nothing until it's transported to Western markets. You want to tell me that private contractors are too ethical for such stuff?

The article notes that Dyncorp hired away border guards for Mideast duty, before coming back with their offer of private forces...If they were actually PLANNING a smuggling op, what would be a smarter way to do it?

I have first-hand experience of the devastation caused by the ready availability of heroin on the streets of most American cities.

Somehow, it IS getting form THERE to HERE...You'd have to be pretty freaking naive to think there are no cowboy mercs involved in the trade. Are you that naive? Or are you being less than truthful?

And don't forget Bremer's directive rendering private contractors immune from Iraqi and military law. All you need to avoid customs is your own landing strip.

Busa, thanks for your input, but it still seems very likely that a few "entrepreneurs" within organizations like Dyncorp and B-water are likely to be lining their pockets with drug trade $$.

The customs inspectors over there(trained by Dyncorp!) aren't all that successful in their interdiction efforts.

You're right, Dyncorp's contract wasn't to train customs agents, it was border guards.

Answer 1

What you're suggesting really would not surprise me if discovered. The whole outsourcing of armed military activities makes me sick anyway.

Answer 2

Obviously "Doc" you've never gone on a Military or Private Contractor flight.

We went through a Customs Inspection in Baghdad

A Customs Inspection in Kuwait

And Finally a Customs Inspection in CONUS

Some of you have really bizarre fear of imagined issues. Blackwater is among the More Professional Security Contractors out there, but then I've seen their Operations first Hand, When were YOU in Iraq or Afghanistan?


What First Hand Knowledge of Blackwater Have YOU got?



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Oh thats right, much more reliable source from the Daily Show, or Bill Maher than up close daily interoperation with Blackwater.

Answer 3

All personnel, including contractors, have to go through customs in Kuwait before travelling back to the United States.
All personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan (as well as in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Djibouti) go through Kuwait for transport home.

The customs units are not privatized. The customs battalion in Kuwait, with one company in Iraq, are Naval Reserve personnel.


>Customs inspectors are not trained by Dynacorp, but by TSA.

Answer 4

Since Canadian forces and the US army and the British army have been in Afganistan killing the Taliban there has been an massive increase in heroin production and crops -

How can that be ?

Shouldn't the presence of our military's ensure that the production of drugs goes down or at least doesn't go up ?

Answer 5

Yes they get searched. Even US military aircraft get searched. I have flown back from Iraq, Afghanistan, Africa, Germany, and many other places and they run drug dogs trough the planes and even check the bags we're carrying.

Answer 6

Yeah, it's called US Customs. Just go ahead and try and fly a private, or military plane into the US without having them going through your $hit.

It's pathetic how liberals who know nothing about the military find a conspiracy in every news story...

addition:
It's apparent you're just stuck on stupid and truly are 100% ignorant...