It was a hot dry afternoon in the rolling pastorial hills of northwest Illinois. Beneath the blue sky and bright sun a group of 80 citizens stood in the heat on Skunk Hallow Road to voice their outrage that Blackwater USA, the most powerful mercenary army in the U.S., opened a new training facility here.
For the first time in the history of the United States a group of unarmed citizens stood at the gates of a private military firm (private army base) to oppose the privatization of the American military and to oppose war profiteers.
In April Blackwater USA opened
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