"the company is now cryptically called Xe—but that has not quite helped it stay under the radar, as founder Erik Prince surely hoped it would. Quite the contrary: Blackwater has been all over the headlines last week and this week for a number of developments. Two of these should come as relief to the company, however. First of all, Blackwater dodged a bullet last week when charges accusing it of wrongdoing in the 2007 Nisour Square shooting in Baghdad were dismisse by a judge. And this week, it was reported that Blackwater has settled a series of federal lawsuits, brought by Iraqi..... but The New York Times today reports that two of the C.I.A. agents killed in last week's suicide bombing in Afghanistan were Blackwater employees....."
and UPI/ here
" ..... Xe, surveyed and secretly plotted to assassinate Mamoun Darkazanli, a Syrian-born man living in the northern German port city of Hamburg.The report has angered officials here in Germany, who never classified Darkazanli, 51, as a security threat. Federal prosecutors have now launched an investigation. The German government has said it knew nothing about such an operation."If this commando really existed and the U.S. government knew about it but didn't notify our government then this would be a very grave incident," Deutsche Welle Online quoted Wolfgang Bosbach, a senior lawmaker of Chancellor Angela Merkel's center-right Christian Democratic Union, as saying......U.S. intelligence officials believe Darkazanli has provided financing to al-Qaida. The businessman appeared in a wedding video with some of the terrorists who hijacked passenger planes on Sept. 11, 2001. However, German authorities did not consider him a threat. That's why the CIA stepped in to deal with him, the magazine writes...."
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Perhaps the cryptic name Xe is a reference to the Mexican term Xe-kik, usually translated as black vomit or blood vomit.
So perhaps Xe Services can be interpreted as Black Services, which would seem apt.
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