Erik Prince, heir to one of Michigan’s richest and most conservative families and founder of Blackwater, is still getting government contracts now that he sold off the nation’s largest private military company — but now those contracts are with the United Arab Emirates.
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Jeremy Scahill, the security company’s chief journalistic pursuer, reports:
Sources close to Blackwater and its secretive owner Erik Prince claim that the embattled head of the world’s most infamous mercenary firm is planning to move to the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The Middle Eastern nation, a major hub for
In case you missed it, Blackwater founder Erik Prince outed himself as a CIA asset in an extraordinary Vanity Fair interview. Prince complained that powerful forces within the government were throwing him under the bus with anonymous press leaks about the private security company’s connections to very sensitive CIA More…
It turns out that expanding your contracts with the government after killing people and paying hush money can attract congressional scrutiny. The New York Times:
Senator John Kerry, the Massachusetts Democrat who is chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, wrote in a
As DeLong noted, Blackwater lost its license to operate in Iraq in 2007, after its security officers gunned down innocent civilians in Baghdad’s Nisour Square. Yet Blackwater didn’t actually leave Iraq until earlier this year, and even then it didn’t really leave. Many of its security guards were More…
Breaking news from The New York Times:
Top executives at Blackwater Worldwide authorized secret payments of about $1 million to Iraqi officials that were intended to silence their criticism and buy their support after a September 2007 episode in which Blackwater security guards fatally
For all the criticism faced by Erik Prince, the founder of private security company Blackwater — since renamed Xe — no one’s ever called him a killer. But according to Jeremy Scahill, the reporter most doggedly investigating the company, new sworn statements filed in a civil case against Xe More…
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