Eric Prince brother of Betsy DeVos and head of Blackwater a mercenary group has been investigated by the UN and found to be dabbling in and Aaron Burr type operation to control areas in Africa for profit by exploiting natural resources. What gets interesting is the tie in to Trump..Not only because of Trump pardoning Prince's murderous mercenaries in Iraq but sales of choppers that can only be authorized by the US government..
The report raises the question of whether Prince played on his ties to the Trump administration to pull off the Libya operation.
It describes how a friend and former partner of Prince traveled to Jordan to buy surplus, American-made Cobra helicopters from the Jordanian military — a sale that ordinarily would require U.S. government permission, according to military experts. The friend assured officials in Jordan that he had “clearances from everywhere” and that his team’s work had been approved “at the highest level,” the report found.
But the Jordanians, unimpressed by those claims, stopped the sale, forcing the mercenaries to source new aircraft from South Africa.
A Western official, speaking to the Times on the condition of anonymity because he was not permitted to discuss confidential work, said the investigators had also obtained phone records showing that Prince’s friend and former partner made several calls to the main White House switchboard in late July 2019, after the mercenary operation ran into trouble.
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The report raises the question of whether Prince played on his ties to the Trump administration to pull off the Libya operation.
It describes how a friend and former partner of Prince traveled to Jordan to buy surplus, American-made Cobra helicopters from the Jordanian military — a sale that ordinarily would require U.S. government permission, according to military experts. The friend assured officials in Jordan that he had “clearances from everywhere” and that his team’s work had been approved “at the highest level,” the report found.
But the Jordanians, unimpressed by those claims, stopped the sale, forcing the mercenaries to source new aircraft from South Africa.
A Western official, speaking to the Times on the condition of anonymity because he was not permitted to discuss confidential work, said the investigators had also obtained phone records showing that Prince’s friend and former partner made several calls to the main White House switchboard in late July 2019, after the mercenary operation ran into trouble.
Erik Prince, Trump ally, violated Libya arms embargo, U.N. report says
NAIROBI, Kenya — Erik Prince, the former head of the security contractor Blackwater Worldwide and a prominent supporter of former President Donald Trump, violated a United Nations arms embargo on Libya by sending weapons to a militia commander who was...
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