September 21, 2007 (LPAC)-- Erik Prince, the chairman of the Prince Group and Blackwater USA, a private military, modeled on the Norman Chivalry of the Venetian Empire, which was just accused by the Iraqi Interior Ministry of the "unprovoked" killing of eleven Iraqi civilians during a Blackwater escort of a U.S. diplomatic convoy in Baghdad, has been invited to testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on October 2.

Prince has been asked by Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), head of the committee, to testify about the mission and the performance of Blackwater and its affiliated companies in Iraq and Afghanistan. Waxman has been looking, recently, into whether the State Department's Inspector General, Howard Krongard, obstructed an inquiry into allegations that Blackwater was illegally smuggling weapons into Iraq.

In his letter to Prince, Waxman writes: "One question that will be examined is whether the government's heavy reliance on private security contractors is serving U.S. interests in Iraq. Another question will be whether the specific conduct of your company has advanced or impeded U.S. efforts."

Additionally, Waxman has issued four subpoenas to the State Department, concerning his investigation of contractor corruption in Iraq; one is for documents, and three are for depositions of State Department officials. This is after the State Department failed to meet a deadline for providing documents and making witnesses available, Waxman said.

Nazi financiers, Felix Rohatyn and George Shultz, who co-chaired a conference at Middlebury College in Vermont in 2004 about privatizing the US military, if given the chance, would probably come to Blackwaters defense.