....best African killing movie since Zulu!
Posted on 01/20/2011 4:31:05 PM PST by Pan_Yan
WASHINGTON — Erik Prince, the founder of the international security giant Blackwater Worldwide, is secretly 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 militias, and battling pirates and Islamic militants there, according to Western and African officials.
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His efforts to wade into the chaos of Somalia appears 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.
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Saracen International has yet to formally announce its plans in Somalia, and there appear to be bitter disagreements within Somalia’s fractious government about whether to hire the South African firm. Somali officials have said that Saracen’s operations — which would also include training an antipiracy army in the semiautonomous region of Puntland — are being financed by an anonymous Middle Eastern country.
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Mr. Prince, who said that moving to Abu Dhabi would “make it harder for the jackals to get my money,” said he intended to find business opportunities in “the energy field.”
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....best African killing movie since Zulu!
....best African killing movie since Zulu!
So...Affirmative Action then? This is good, right?
But it does affect the political landscape in which he must operate.
The kinetic energy field :)
I’m guessing that the EU and UN will threaten to turn off the spigot if the Somali Transitional Federal Government hires them. However, Puntland, where many of the pirates are from, might be more willing.
You must give serious consideration to District Nine. Of course in that flick the natives are ‘the good guys’
I subcribed to Soldier of Fortune and 3 years ago, they had a great spread on Christian ex-US, Aussie and UK Spec Ops who were “helping” the Christian Sudanese defend themselves against their muslim neighbors who were being backed by al qaeda.
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