[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, CONTRACTORS: Blackwater facility opposed in Otay Mesa (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Blackwater's proposed San Diego training facility draws criticism
Opponents say the firm used the names of other entities to gain permits 
to remodel an Otay Mesa warehouse. The firm says it needs a center to 
fulfill a Navy contract.

By Tony Perry
Los Angeles Times
May 15, 2008

SAN DIEGO - Blackwater Worldwide, the global security firm whose conduct 
in Iraq has drawn criticism, is again trying to open a training facility 
in the face of local opposition.

In March, the firm dropped plans to build a 220-acre training camp in 
rural Potrero, about 45 miles east of downtown San Diego. A coalition of 
rural property owners, environmentalists and antiwar activists opposed 
its effort to build a "combat town."

But the coalition did not know that Blackwater was simultaneously moving 
to open a smaller facility with a shooting range in Otay Mesa, within 
the city limits and near the Mexican border.

The other project became known to the public only after leaders of the 
coalition received a tip from someone with inside information.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-blackwater15-2008may15,0,791089.story

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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