Maulana Fazal-ur-Rahman, the leader of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, a Deobandi political party in Pakistan, said there were as many as 9,000 Xe contractors working in Islamabad, compared with just 7,000 capital police, Pakistan’s News International reports.
The Pakistani Taliban last week said attacks in the Lower Dir District of Pakistan’s North-West Frontier province killed U.S. personnel, claiming the attack was an act of revenge against Xe contractors operating in the region.
Richard Holbrooke, the U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, confirmed the deaths were U.S. military personnel but described the Taliban claims as propaganda.
Their deaths are the first known U.S. military fatalities in Pakistan.
Fazal blamed foreign contractors for instability in the country, saying they undermined an already weak democratic government. He equated Xe contractors with the insurgent Taliban.
First off, if Blackwater doesn't have that many guys available, unless they're stealing 88Ms from active duty. Second of all, if they need that many Blackwater guys for local security, and they outnumber the local cops, maybe the problem isn't that there are too many Blackwaterians, but not nearly enough police to keep an eye on every Fazik, Rahmel, and Abdullah who wants to blow up the local girls' school.
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