http://news.sina.com.tw/article/20100620/3327525.html
新華社今晨電 原名黑水公司的美國Xe服務公司據信18日獲得美國國防部合同，負責在阿富汗建造防禦設施。
美國國防部一名女發言人告訴美國哥倫比亞廣播公司記者，隸屬於Xe服務公司的「美國培訓中心」當天從國防部獲得一份合同，負責為美國駐阿富汗赫拉特省和馬扎裡沙裡夫地區領事館修建「防禦性安全設施」。工期為18個月，合同額1.2億美元。
黑水公司曾在伊拉克、阿富汗等地為美國政府提供安保等服務。2007年9月16日，一支美國國務院車隊行駛至伊拉克首都巴格達尼蘇爾廣場時，負責護送車隊的「黑水」保安朝人群開槍，包括兒童在內的至少14名伊拉克平民死亡、20人受傷。
美國國會2007年一份調查報告顯示，2005年以來，黑水公司牽涉伊拉克將近200起槍擊事件。其中大約84%的事件中，「黑水」保安不顧及平民死傷，胡亂開槍。伊拉克政府2009年1月禁止黑水公司繼續在伊拉克開展業務。同年2月，黑水公司更名為Xe服務公司。
source: CBS News
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31727_162-20008238-10391695.html
Blackwater Firm Gets $120M U.S. Gov't Contract
CBS News has learned in an exclusive report that the State Department has awarded a part of what was formerly known as Blackwater Worldwide a contract worth more than $120 million for providing security services in Afghanistan.
Private security firm U.S. Training Center, a business unit of the Moyock, N.C.-based Blackwater, now called Xe Services, was awarded the contract Friday, a State Department spokeswoman said Friday night.
Under the contract, U.S. Training Center will provide "protective security services" at the new U.S. consulates in Herat and Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan, the spokeswoman said. The firm can begin work "immediately" and has to start within two months. The contract lasts a year but can be extended twice for three months at a time to last a maximum of 18 months.
Should the firm fulfill all 18 months available in the contract, it will be paid a total of $120,123,293, the spokeswoman said.
The awarding of the contract comes just more than four months after the government of Iraq ordered hundreds of Blackwater-linked security guards to leave the country within seven days or face possible arrest.
The Justice Department is also trying to prosecute a case against five Blackwater guards who had opened fire on a crowded Baghdad street in 2007. Last December, a federal judge dismissed the U.S. government's case against the guards in the deaths of unarmed Iraqi civilians killed in the shooting because prosecutors used sworn statements the guards gave under a promise of immunity. Federal prosecutors are continuing to appeal the dismissal.
The Justice Department's case or Blackwater's expulsion from Iraq didn't block U.S. Training Center from bidding on the multi-million dollar contract, the State Department spokeswoman said.
"Under federal acquisition regulations, the prosecution of the specific Blackwater individuals does not preclude the company or its successive companies and subsidiaries from bidding on contracts," the spokeswoman said. "On the basis of full and open competition, the department performed a full technical evaluation of all proposals and determined the U.S. Training Center has the best ability and qualifications to meet the contract requirements."
Two other companies submitted bids for the contract, the spokeswoman said; however, she could not name either of U.S. Training Center's competitors when reached Friday night.
沒有留言:
張貼留言