two things that really do NOT go together

are "humanitarian effort" AND FUCKING ERIK PRINCE. humanitarian effort my big fat arse.

of course i'm not surprised by this at all. the ONLY thing that surprises me is when he moved to the uae. that, i still don't get

by the way, i am MORE frightened by the CONSERVATIVE, 'RELIGIOUS', INCREDIBLY WEALTHY GOOD OL' WHITE  BOY NETWORK than i am by ANY al qaeda or taliban type

Blackwater Founder Said to Back Mercenaries

By MARK MAZZETTI and ERIC SCHMITT

WASHINGTON — Erik Prince, the founder of the international security giant Blackwater Worldwide, is backing an effort by a controversial South African mercenary firm to insert itself into Somalia’s bloody civil war by protecting government leaders, training Somali troops, and battling pirates and Islamic militants there, according to American and Western officials.  The disclosure comes as Mr. Prince sells off his interest in the company he built into a behemoth with billions of dollars in American government contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan, work that mired him in lawsuits and investigations amid reports of reckless behavior by his operatives, including causing the deaths of civilians in Iraq. His efforts to wade into the chaos of Somalia appear to be Mr. Prince’s latest endeavor to remain at the center of a campaign against Islamic radicalism in some of the world’s most war-ravaged corners.........................

 

pic: Gerry Broome/Associated Press

Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater, lives in the United Arab Emirates, which have an interest in curbing piracy.

Blackwater’s Prince building mercenary force with apartheid-era ‘hit squad’ officer
By Daniel Tencer

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According to the New York Times' Mark Mazzetti and Eric Schmitt, Saracen's head is Lafras Luitingh, a former officer in South Africa's Civil Cooperation Bureau. During the apartheid era, the CCB acted as a hit squad, killing or attempting to kill anti-apartheid dissidents.
After apartheid ended, South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission found the CCB guilty of numerous killings. It has also been alleged that the CCB poisoned the water supply at a Namibian refugee camp, bombed a South African kindergarten, and even attempted to bewitch Bishop Desmond Tutu with a baboon fetus.

Luitingh was evidently a major in the CCB, and was in charge of its Zimbabwe operations........................