Erik Prince, Trump Ally, Violated Libya Arms Embargo, U.N. Report Says
Source: New York Times
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.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/19/world/middleeast/erk-prince-libya-embargo.html
Under The Radar
(3,401 posts)COL Mustard
(5,871 posts)Lock him up and throw away the keys.
mopinko
(70,023 posts)hang him.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,148 posts)The stank on that family is unreal.
thenelm1
(851 posts)where, gawd forbid if he did make a comeback, even dump couldn't pardon him.
Javaman
(62,504 posts)Throw his ass in prison. Hopefully his amway money wont get him a get out of jail free card.
You know, two toes of justice in this nation: for the rich and for the rest of us.
Blue Owl
(50,291 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,766 posts)Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,497 posts)on the U.S. government?