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    Al Jazeera In Potrero (CA) Covering Blackwater Training

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    Al Jazeera In Potrero Covering Blackwater Training

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    Blackwater USA is trying to bring a training camp for its private security forces to Potrero, and now a crew from Al Jazeera's English-language TV station has shown up at the site.

    Former American network news correspondent Rob Reynolds greeted a News 8 camera as he interviewed a Potrero resident for his new boss -- the 24-hour Al Jazeera English TV channel, which launched last fall. The Washington-based reporter was in town to do a story on the controversial proposed Blackwater military training project, which would be built on a vacant 800-acre chicken ranch.

    Once the three-person unit spotted our camera while they chatted with Blackwater opponent Steve Kowit, they quickly moved out of sight. Minutes after packing up their SUV, they left town after spending just three hours in the area.

    "They understood that you guys wanted them to be the news story," Kowit said.

    Kowit, who says the Blackwater project promotes fire danger and is environmentally disruptive, felt the crew was fair.

    "They asked me absolutely appropriate questions, they were professionals like you are, and I suspect nothing will be slanted," Kowit said.

    Gordon Hammers is the chairman of the Potrero Community Planning Group. He says he spoke to the Al Jazeera crew about how Blackwater would help revitalize the local economy. In the back of his mind, however, he had lingering questions about the objective of their visit.

    "What are you doing here in the first place," Hammers said. "This is a local land use issue. You really have no business putting this into international politics."

    It was unclear when a story about Blackwater would air on Al Jazeera. The news crew refused to speak with News 8.

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    The private security firm Blackwater USA is planning to build a new military training center on an 800-acre ranch near Potrero, a tiny rural town east of San Diego.

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    It recently opened a new facility in Illinois ("Blackwater North") and is fighting local opposition to a third planned domestic facility near San Diego ("Blackwater West") by the Mexican border. It is also manufacturing an armored vehicle (nicknamed the "Grizzly") and surveillance blimps.

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    Now there is a lovely group of gentleman
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    Group of 100,000 + highly paid some call them the Republican Guard, from what I have read. Some also say they are above the law. They are in Iraq, and were involved in Hurricane Katrina. Pretty scarry stuff!

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