07-13-2010, 02:29 PM
ISLAMABAD – The announcement made by the owner of Blackwater to ‘sell’ the notorious enterprise has not moved hundreds of its mercenaries present in Islamabad.
Blackwater’s owner Eric Prince announced last month that Blackwater was out for sale. Soon after the announcement, Islamabad-based security sources informed TheNation that the suspicious ‘aliens’ dispersed across the Federal Capital would be pulling out from Pakistan in the next two to three weeks.
The security officials had then confided that Blackwater’s mercenaries present in the South Asian and Middle Eastern region, particularly Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq, would be winding up “in a jiffy” in the wake of mega reshuffle in the top management of Blackwater initiated by Eric Prince earlier this year.
However, the prevailing scenario speaks otherwise. On May 14 and May 26 last, the exact postal addresses of 33 houses in posh residential localities of the Federal Capital - that were confirmedly hired by US Marines and Blackwater personnel - were first published in this newspaper.
Further information indicates that out of those 33 houses - that were either hired by US Marines in the garb of humanitarian workers of US Office of Defence Representatives to Pakistan (ODR-P) or by Blackwater mercenaries - five residences cum offices have been relocated to alternative venues and highest possible security measures are being adopted for their protection so that no one can track them. They were previously located in the sectors F-7/3, F-8/3 and F-6/2 of the Federal Capital but now they have been moved to E-7 and G-6/4.
Blackwater’s owner Eric Prince announced last month that Blackwater was out for sale. Soon after the announcement, Islamabad-based security sources informed TheNation that the suspicious ‘aliens’ dispersed across the Federal Capital would be pulling out from Pakistan in the next two to three weeks.
The security officials had then confided that Blackwater’s mercenaries present in the South Asian and Middle Eastern region, particularly Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq, would be winding up “in a jiffy” in the wake of mega reshuffle in the top management of Blackwater initiated by Eric Prince earlier this year.
However, the prevailing scenario speaks otherwise. On May 14 and May 26 last, the exact postal addresses of 33 houses in posh residential localities of the Federal Capital - that were confirmedly hired by US Marines and Blackwater personnel - were first published in this newspaper.
Further information indicates that out of those 33 houses - that were either hired by US Marines in the garb of humanitarian workers of US Office of Defence Representatives to Pakistan (ODR-P) or by Blackwater mercenaries - five residences cum offices have been relocated to alternative venues and highest possible security measures are being adopted for their protection so that no one can track them. They were previously located in the sectors F-7/3, F-8/3 and F-6/2 of the Federal Capital but now they have been moved to E-7 and G-6/4.