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kaiser soze
05-15-2011, 08:16 AM
This fucker ran from the U.S. when his kill and bill business Blackwater became entangled in some legal issues concerning the indiscriminate killing of Iraqi citizens and innocent people. This terrorist cashed in on the war, his mercs getting paid hundreds of thousands of dollars fighting alongside U.S. soldiers who were denied proper armor/equipment.

Now he is in the Middle East training foreign fighters to become the Gestapo of the UAE. Leaving the U.S. while his "business" was under investigation/going to trial should have been considered exceptionally criminal - but to know that he may very well be building a private foreign army (and possibly violating State Department/U.S International laws) - I would say it's safe to say this man is an enemy against Democracy and could very well aid future terrorist(s) with intensive paramilitary training....being Colombians, I'm sure these "fighters" already have a fair amount of guerrilla warfare knowledge - they've just gone to where the money is better.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/15/world/middleeast/15prince.html?_r=2&hp

Mr. Prince, who resettled here last year after his security business faced mounting legal problems in the United States, was hired by the crown prince of Abu Dhabi to put together an 800-member battalion of foreign troops for the U.A.E., according to former employees on the project, American officials and corporate documents obtained by The New York Times.

The force is intended to conduct special operations missions inside and outside the country, defend oil pipelines and skyscrapers from terrorist attacks and put down internal revolts, the documents show. Such troops could be deployed if the Emirates faced unrest in their crowded labor camps or were challenged by pro-democracy protests like those sweeping the Arab world this year.

Knowing that his ventures are magnets for controversy, Mr. Prince has masked his involvement with the mercenary battalion. His name is not included on contracts and most other corporate documents, and company insiders have at times tried to hide his identity by referring to him by the code name “Kingfish.” But three former employees, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of confidentiality agreements, and two people involved in security contracting described Mr. Prince’s central role.

But the secrecy of the project has sometimes created a prisonlike environment. “We didn’t have permission to even look through the door,” Mr. Rincón said. “We were only allowed outside for our morning jog, and all we could see was sand everywhere.”

Built from the U.S. taxpayer's pocket, funded by Arabic royalty, manned by prisoner fighters and headed by a U.S. criminal - Looks like DisneyLand!

Schmeltz
05-16-2011, 12:44 AM
The well-documented (and bafflingly under-reported) proliferation of mercenary military activity alongside the formal operations of the American armed forces blows my fucking mind, especially given the complicity of these organizations in the lowest of criminal activities. Even the most cursory examination of Blackwater's activities in the Balkans, long before the neocon misadventures in the Middle East, reveals Eric Prince as a pimp, a slaver, and an international drug drealer. How can anybody parrot the traditional "support the troops" party line when this kind of subhumanity is part and parcel of their government's foreign policy? Ignorance used to be an excuse, but this is the god damned information age, isn't it?

I would love to see the GOP hardliners drift in here to support this barbarity, but it looks like we'll have to wait for Sarah Palin to sweep the red states before we see another round of the usual Republican backpedalling. Obama's Clinton-lite reclusivity will have to do in the meantime. (n)