{"id":358346,"date":"2010-02-24T12:47:20","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T17:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=77575"},"modified":"2010-02-24T12:47:20","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T17:47:20","slug":"blackwater-still-illicitly-has-53-weapons-from-u-s-military-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/358346","title":{"rendered":"Blackwater Still Illicitly Has 53 Weapons From U.S. Military in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The head of contract compliance for Blackwater, Fred Roitz, told Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) that he has never known that <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/77476\/blackwater-the-senate-and-south-park\">hundreds of weapons Blackwater employees took from a U.S. military depot in Afghanistan called 22 Bunkers (or Bunker 22)<\/a> have been explicitly designated by Gen. David Petraeus, commander of U.S. Central Command, as not being for contractor usage. A Blackwater official has also told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the company still has 53 weapons in Afghanistan from the military that it has never been authorized to possess.<span id=\"more-77575\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Roitz said he doesn&#8217;t know how many of those guns come from 22 Bunkers. What&#8217;s more, he told Levin that he didn&#8217;t even know that any guns Blackwater uses in Afghanistan came from that Bunker until the &#8220;April, May time frame&#8221; in 2009, during an inventory check.<\/p>\n<p>For the hat trick, Roitz told Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) that Raytheon requested Blackwater hide its affiliation with Paravant, Blackwater&#8217;s shell company to get a Raytheon subcontract training Afghan forces. If Raytheon denies that, Roitz may find himself subject to a perjury investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of contract compliance for Blackwater, Fred Roitz, told Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) that he has never known that hundreds of weapons Blackwater employees took from a U.S. military depot in Afghanistan called 22 Bunkers (or Bunker 22) have been explicitly designated by Gen. David Petraeus, commander of U.S. Central Command, as not being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}