Blackwater Plans Effort Against Piracy

The McArthur can carry helicopters and inflatable boats. Photo (Neil Rabinowitz/Blackwater)

From The Wall Street Journal:

Private security firm Blackwater Worldwide began holding meetings in London on Tuesday with potential clients for a new business venture -- protection from pirates.

The Moyock, N.C., firm, which has grown rapidly through State Department security work in Iraq, has been courting shippers and insurance firms about protecting ships in pirate-infested waters. It's meeting with more than a dozen firms this week and hopes to drum up its first contract.

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My Comment: I suspect that they are going to get a lot of contracts.