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Already in existence at the time of the first Crusade in 1099, in 1113 the Order of St. John was
given its independence by Pope Pascal II, permitted to elect its own Grand Master, and soon the
Order began military participation in the Crusades along with the Knights Templar and Teutonic
Knights. The Order of St. John recruited successfully among the European aristocracy and soon
controlled extensive estates throughout the continent, assimilating those previously belonging to
the Knights Templar which it had helped crush during the first two decades of the 14th century,
with the Templar leadership burned alive as...
Blackwater's Modern Crusade
by Marios Buttner
Issue10 January 8 , 2008
Recent Hearings in Congress , which brought Blackwater into focus draws interesting parallels into the Knights long History, which dates back to the 12th century.
Blackwater had received contracts that amounted over 1 Billion $, according to Chairman of the Hearing committee Henry Waxman.



