Blackwater: High-paid mercenaries (Sometimes, $1,000 per day)

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"Hey guys, let's kill some Muslims and then meet at the officer's club for some beer."

Remember Blackwater USA, the private mercenary brigade hired by the Bush-Cheney White House for dubious missions in Iraq?

Last week, The New York Times revealed that Blackwater commandos helped CIA agents perform "snatch and grab" raids to kidnap Muslim suspects both in Iraq and Afghanistan between 2004 and 2006.

The high-paid mercenaries guarded secret "rendition" flights that transported abductees to various prisons for interrogation that sometimes included torture.

A follow-up report in The Washington Post said "Blackwater personnel helped to kill some of the targets."

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