December 4, 2009
Erik Prince: tycoon, contractor, soldier, spy
By Adam Ciralsky, Vanity Fair, January, 2010
“I put myself and my company at the C.I.A.’s disposal for some very risky missions,” says Erik Prince as he surveys his heavily fortified, 7,000-acre compound in rural Moyock, North Carolina. “But when it became politically expedient to do so, someone threw me under [...]
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November 24, 2009
Blackwater’s secret war in Pakistan
By Jeremy Scahill, The Nation, November 23, 2009
At a covert forward operating base run by the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, members of an elite division of Blackwater are at the center of a secret program in which they plan targeted assassinations of [...]
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What would Erik Prince advise?
February 8, 2010The New York Times reports:
An Iraqi militant group said it had abducted an American contractor, a day after the United States military reported that a contractor had been missing since Jan. 23. It would be the first reported kidnapping of an American in a year in Iraq.
The militant group posted a video to back up [...]