Most of the stories about Blackwater depict a company of rogue paramilitary contractors out of control. But who do you call when you need help in a war torn country? BLACKWATER!

Three young women have returned home to Michigan after being rescued from an orphanage in a remote village of strife-torn Kenya by Blackwater Worldwide.

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.

snip……After being unable to arrange for a charter airplane or helicopter to pick up the women despite a “frantic search,” he said he turned to his parents for help — and they reached Blackwater founder and owner Erik Prince through Rep. Vernon J. Ehlers, Michigan Republican.

It was within an hour, he said, that Mr. Prince, a Michigan native, called to offer his firm’s services.

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