Sunday
May152011
US at War Feature: Blackwater Founder Supplies Mercenaries for Gulf Regimes (Mazzetti/Hager)
Sunday, May 15, 2011 at 11:24 | Scott Lucas in EA Middle East and Turkey, EA USA, Middle East and Iran
Late one night last November, a plane carrying dozens of Colombian men touched down in this glittering seaside capital. Whisked through customs by an Emirati intelligence officer, the group boarded an unmarked bus and drove roughly 20 miles to a windswept military complex in the desert sand.
The Colombians had entered the United Arab Emirates posing as construction workers. In fact, they were soldiers for a secret American-led mercenary army being built by Erik Prince, the billionaire founder of Blackwater Worldwide, with $529 million from the oil-soaked sheikdom.
tagged Blackwater, Erik Prince, United Arab Emirates