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US Blackwater-Xe mercenaries spreads fear in Pakistani town (Feature) - Monsters and Critics

US Blackwater-Xe mercenaries spreads fear in Pakistani town (Feature) - Monsters and Critics: "Peshawar - Fear is spreading across University Town, an upmarket residential area in Pakistan's north-western city of Peshawar, due to the overt presence of the controversial US private security contractor Blackwater.

Sporting the customary dark glasses and carrying assault rifles, the mercenaries zoom around the neighbourhood in their black-coloured armoured Chevy Suburbans, and shout at motorists when occasionally stranded in a traffic jam."

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