Diegetics

I love that Mr. Prince is a devout Christian. One really has to wonder about this American breed of Christianity that allows you to get filthy rich off of running a mercenary army and still go to heaven some how.

Yeah, my friend posted this to Facebook.

Say bub-bye to the nation-state. Just like corporations represent economies that rival smaller nations, so too will private armies soon be larger than the armies of smaller nations.

Feral Jundi, the contractors favorite website posted link to following:

Boing Boing Eric Prince, the billionaire founder of Blackwater (now rebranded “Xe”) is building a stealth, American-led mercenary army in the United Arab Emirates “with $529 million from the oil-soaked sheikdom.

Industry Talk: The UAE Contracts With Erik Prince To Raise An Army–To Deal With Iran!

HELLO AZARI

rumor has it this is just the beginng...

couple of thousand special operations types

and its a regional counterforce

to various self proclaimed

parties of god.

FORMER SEAL PRINCE ORDERS BLACKWATER TO BACKWATER



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 the US war industry, has no extradition treaty with the United States. In April, five of Prince's top deputies were hit with a fifteen-count indictment by a federal grand jury on conspiracy, weapons and obstruction of justice charges. Among those indicted were Prince's longtime number-two man, former Blackwater president Gary Jackson, former vice presidents William Matthews and Ana Bundy and Prince's former legal counsel Andrew Howell.


The Blackwater/Erik Prince saga took yet another dramatic turn last week, when Prince abruptly announced that he was putting his company up for sale.

While Prince has not personally been charged with any crimes, federal investigators and several Congressional committees clearly have his company and inner circle in their sights. The Nation learned of Prince's alleged plans to move to the UAE from three separate sources. One Blackwater source told The Nation that Prince intends to sell his company quickly, saying the "sale is going to be a fast move within a couple of months."

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The Times reports that part of the UAE's motivation in getting into bed with Prince was the hope that his "troops could blunt the regional aggression of Iran," adding: "Some security consultants believe that Mr. Prince’s efforts to bolster the Emirates’ defenses against an Iranian threat might yield some benefits for the American government, which shares the U.A.E.’s concern about creeping Iranian influence in the region. 'As much as Erik Prince is a pariah in the United States, he may be just what the doctor ordered in the U.A.E.,' said an American security consultant with knowledge of R2’s work."

In a speech Prince delivered in late 2009, a copy of which was obtained by The Nation, Prince spoke of the need to confront Iranian influence in the Middle East, charging that Iran has a "master plan to stir up and organize a Shia revolt through the whole region." At the time, Prince proposed that armed private soldiers from companies like Blackwater be deployed in countries throughout the region to target Iranian influence. "The Iranians have a very sinister hand in these places," Prince said. "You're not going to solve it by putting a lot of uniformed soldiers in all these countries. It's way too politically sensitive. The private sector can operate there with a very, very small, very light footprint." In addition to concerns of political expediency, Prince suggested that using private contractors to conduct such operations would be cost-effective. "The overall defense budget is going to have to be cut and they're going to look for ways, they're going to have to have ways to become more efficient," he said.

Former employees of R2 "said that in recruiting the Colombians and others from halfway around the world, Mr. Prince’s subordinates were following his strict rule: hire no Muslims," according to the Times. "Muslim soldiers, Mr. Prince warned, could not be counted on to kill fellow Muslims." One of the Colombians who worked for Prince in the UAE told the Times, “We were practically an army for the Emirates,” adding: “They wanted people who had a lot of experience in countries with conflicts, like Colombia.”

This particular choice is interesting given the past treatment of Colombians by Prince's companies. In 2006, thirty-five former Colombian troops on contract in Iraq with Blackwater claimed that the firm had defrauded them and was paying them just $34 a day for a job that earned exponentially more for their US and European counterparts. The Colombians said they were originally promised $4000 a month but learned of their greatly reduced pay only after arriving in Iraq. When they protested and demanded to leave Baghdad, Blackwater officials reportedly “threatened to remove us from the base and leave us in the street in Baghdad, where one is vulnerable to being killed, or, at best, kidnapped.” Eventually the Colombians were repatriated. In 2007, one of the Colombian recruiters who had hired the men for Blackwater, was gunned down in Bogotá. This time around, the Colombians were reportedly paid about $150 a day and were recruited by a Caribbean-based company called Thor Global Enterprises. The Colombians were issued visas by the UAE's military intelligence branch, allowing them to breeze through customs without being questioned.

An American who runs another security company in the UAE told The Nation that news of Prince's company is "a fricking PR disaster" for the UAE, adding that it will mean "some of the other Sheikhs will want answers about what a private Christian army was intended for.

ANSWER

what all christian armies are for...WAR
both holy kind and unholy ones.

plausible deniability?

false flag operations

targeted assassinations

snoop and snatch

random chaos

mahyhem

800 for the UAE, 35,000 for Saudi Arabia. What a boon for the companies involved in training.

I think going crazy is like a narcotic for some people.

if thats what it sounds like...

turn on your hearing aid

and listen to the silence

of americans not dying.....



unike the cheneybushwolfowitzperlekristolabramsfeith

martyring of thousands of US soldiers

and hundreds of thousands of iraqis

in an illegal immoral invasion based

on cooked up intel to fit the agenda

of non us security interests

UNLIKE YOU MR PEE

i have earned something besides shekels.

as to brown people dying in libya

just a small fraction of the million

you and your kind killed in iraq

about which you are as quiet

as a rat licking its wounds.