Dad of rescued women hails security firm - - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper

About time that Blackwater got good press again. Thank you guy! Good work!

Dad of rescued women hails security firm - - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper: "Dean VanderMey, executive director of Set Free Ministries International, a nondenominational Christian ministry in Grand Rapids, Mich., that operates throughout Africa, said daughters Brittanie, 21, and Aubrie, 19, and their friend Jamie Cook, 20, owe their lives to Blackwater's 'dedicated professionals.'

The women were rescued Sunday from an orphanage at which they were working in a remote area of Kenya after countrywide election results were bitterly disputed, sparking mob violence that killed nearly 500 people.

They arrived home safely in Grand Rapids on Monday after Blackwater operatives picked them up at an airstrip near the orphanage in the village of Kimilili. They were flown to Nairobi, the Kenyan capital, aboard a 10-passenger single-engine plane located by Blackwater officials before catching a commercial flight home.

'There were only two guards at the orphanage, and they had only spears and machetes. The girls were sleeping with knives and Mace,' Mr. VanderMey told The Washington Times. 'They didn't know if the mobs were going to come to their village or not.'"