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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsErik Prince, Trump Ally, Violated Libya Arms Embargo, U.N. Report Says
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Citizens for Ethics
@CREWcrew
Erik Prince, the former head of Blackwater, brother of Betsy DeVos and prominent supporter of Donald Trump, violated a UN arms embargo on Libya by sending weapons to a militia commander who was attempting to overthrow the internationally backed government.
The accusation that Mr. Prince violated the U.N.s arms embargo on Libya exposes him to possible U.N. sanctions.
Erik Prince, Trump Ally, Violated Libya Arms Embargo, U.N. Report Says
Mr. Prince offered to supply weapons, drones and mercenaries to a Libyan militia commander seeking to overthrow the government, according to U.N. investigators.
nytimes.com
4:35 PM · Feb 19, 2021
Citizens for Ethics
@CREWcrew
Erik Prince, the former head of Blackwater, brother of Betsy DeVos and prominent supporter of Donald Trump, violated a UN arms embargo on Libya by sending weapons to a militia commander who was attempting to overthrow the internationally backed government.
The accusation that Mr. Prince violated the U.N.s arms embargo on Libya exposes him to possible U.N. sanctions.
Erik Prince, Trump Ally, Violated Libya Arms Embargo, U.N. Report Says
Mr. Prince offered to supply weapons, drones and mercenaries to a Libyan militia commander seeking to overthrow the government, according to U.N. investigators.
nytimes.com
4:35 PM · Feb 19, 2021
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/19/world/middleeast/erk-prince-libya-embargo.html
NAIROBI, Kenya Erik Prince, the former head of the security contractor Blackwater Worldwide and a prominent supporter of former President Donald J. Trump, violated a United Nations arms embargo on Libya by sending weapons to a militia commander who was attempting to overthrow the internationally backed government, according to U.N. investigators.
A confidential U.N. report obtained by The New York Times and delivered by investigators to the Security Council on Thursday reveals how Mr. Prince deployed a force of foreign mercenaries, armed with attack aircraft, gunboats and cyberwarfare capabilities, to eastern Libya at the height of a major battle in 2019.
As part of the operation, which the report said cost $80 million, the mercenaries also planned to form a hit squad that could track down and kill selected Libyan commanders.
Mr. Prince, a former Navy SEAL and the brother of Betsy DeVos, Mr. Trumps education secretary, became a symbol of the excesses of privatized American military force when his Blackwater contractors killed 17 Iraqi civilians in 2007.
In the past decade he has relaunched himself as an executive who strikes deals sometimes for minerals, other times involving military force in war-addled but resource-rich countries, mostly in Africa.
During the Trump administration, Mr. Prince was a generous donor and a staunch ally of the president, often in league with figures like Steve Bannon and Roger Stone as they sought to undermine Mr. Trumps critics. And Mr. Prince came under scrutiny from the Trump-Russia inquiry over his meeting with a Russian banker in 2017.
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Erik Prince, Trump Ally, Violated Libya Arms Embargo, U.N. Report Says (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Feb 2021
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leftieNanner
(15,084 posts)1. Damn!
This creep really needs to see the inside of a prison cell. For an extended period of time.
flying_wahini
(6,593 posts)2. Prince is a treasonous bastard, isn't he?
Wow. Hard to believe he is still out there pulling this crap.
Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)3. POS merchant of death.
relayerbob
(6,544 posts)4. I'm shocked
Whoda thunk that?
I'm waiting for them to find the paper trail between Trump and ISIS. I know it's there, and probably one of the things Putin hold over Trump.
Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)5. I think there is a connection there, too.