U.S.-based Blackwater Training Taiwanese

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U.S.-based Blackwater Training Taiwanese
BY WENDELL MINNICK


TAIPEI — U.S.-based Blackwater is training members of the Taiwanese National Security Bureau’s (NSB’s) special protection service, which guards the president. The NSB is responsible for the overall security of the country and was once an instrument of terrorism during the martial law period.

Today, according to its Web site, the NSB is responsible for “national intelligence work, special protective service and unified cryptography.”

The NSB came under severe criticism in March 2004 when President Chen Shui-bian and Vice President Annette Lu were shot by an unknown assailant while riding in a motorcade in Tainan City. Both sustained minor wounds, but the assailant was never identified and the motive for the shooting remains a mystery.

An NSB source stated that training began in 2007 and was conducted at Blackwater facilities in the United States. The source stated the NSB was satisfied with the training, and further training programs are being considered.

“The key thing would be to have special operations training for Army, Marines and Reserve units in Taiwan,” a former U.S. government official said.

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1. Well, that ought to help our relationship with China.

I love how we support terrorists all over the world while we're conducting a war on terror.