Blackwater Mercenary Captain Erik Prince Charged with Murder?

There was a news item all over the Indymedia (2.0) landscape and on MSNBC the last days that is too good to miss. In sworn statements of his own employee at Blackwater (currently renamed as Xe), the sole owner of the high-end mercenary company Erik Prince has been accused of murdering, or assisting in the murder of US state officials involved in the pending investigations into Blackwater. Erik Prince now faces the possibility of criminal prosecution for murder. Jeremy Scahill writes in The Nation that "The former employee also alleges that Prince 'views himself as a Christian crusader tasked with eliminating Muslims and the Islamic faith from the globe', and that Prince's companies 'encouraged and rewarded the destruction of Iraqi life.'"
In his 2007 book 'Blackwater, The rise of the world's most powerful mercenary army', Scahill describes the vast amount of crimes committed by this new privatised form of military forces. As just a few examples, in the aftermath of Katrina, Prince sent out his private army forces into Louisiana 24 hours before getting an official contract from the US government, and before the imposition of martial law in the state of Louisiana. Blackwater forces in Iraq have long been above either US or Iraqi law, making the mercenaries effectively free from any kind of criminal prosecution. US contracts with Blackwater in Afghanistan have only increased since Obama's presidency. Hopefully, this story will serve to renew public interest into this terrifying phenomenon.