FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
June 19, 2007

BLACKWATER DISPELS PUBLIC MISINFORMATION THAT IT IS "SUING THE FAMILIES" OF ITS FALLEN COLLEAGUES

Moyock, NC - Contrary to a recent press release by California plaintiff lawyers Dan Callahan and Marc Miles, Blackwater USA is not "suing the families" of four Blackwater contractors murdered by insurgents in Fallujah, Iraq, on March 31, 2004.

A recent press release issued by Callahan and Miles makes the false claim that Blackwater is "suing the families." Blackwater has never sued the families of the four contractors killed in Fallujah, and seeks nothing from the families.

Blackwater is seeking in arbitration to enforce its contracts with the four deceased men. The respondent in that arbitration is a North Carolina lawyer who represents the "ancillary estates" of the four deceased men. Those estates were established by the North Carolina lawyer for only one purpose: to sue Blackwater. The four brave men who died in Fallujah well understood the grave risk faced on a daily basis in Iraq. In their contracts with Blackwater, these men had promised, among other things, not to sue Blackwater.

"Hopefully, this press release will lay to rest the misinformation published recently by the trial attorneys who sued Blackwater, and who falsely claim that Blackwater is 'suing the families.' The so-called family defense fund announced recently was not set up for the families," said Blackwater President Gary Jackson, "but was set up by and for the trial lawyers."

For more information, please contact Anne Tyrrell at 703-852-4320 / 703-595-0826.

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