Blackwater Threatens To Kill State Dep Investigators

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Mark Melin
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After uncovering alleged indiscriminate killings of civilians in Iraq, broad misuse of power and fraudulent billing practices of security contractor Blackwater, two US State Department investigators received direct death threats from Blackwater’s commander in Iraq and were told “no one could or would do anything about it (their murder) as we were in Iraq,” according to US State Department documents reported in the New York Times. US security contractor backs off after getting threats from Blackwater After receiving the death threat from a US security contractor, State Department investigators backed off and later a sanitized report was created that found…

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.