the Sept. 16 security operation have been ordered not to speak about the episode. But word of the disagreement on the street has slowly made its way through the community of private security contractors New York Times

And, there are allegations that Blackwater is selling arms to insurgents that are being used against American troops:

The first public hint that an investigation was under way came earlier this week in a statement from State Department Inspector General Howard Krongard after he was accused of blocking fraud investigations in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Don't Miss Krongard said the State Department has been cooperating with the prosecutors in the Blackwater probe. "In particular, I made one of my best investigators available to help assistant U.S. attorneys in North Carolina in their investigation into allegedPeople in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s newly merged districts cast their votes to elect provincial representatives on Saturday for the first time in history. The unofficial and unverified results are out.

Independents grabbed the highest number of seats: six out of 16. The PTI won five, JUI-F three and JI and ANP won one each.

Sixteen seats were being contested in seven districts. Of the 285 candidates standing for the election, 202 were independent candidates. There are over 2.8 million registered voters in the area, of which 1.13 million are women.

At 16, the PTI had the most candidates contesting the election from a political party. The JUI-F had 15 candidates, ANP had 14, PPP and JI both had 13 and the PML-N had five candidates. Two women were also contesting the election