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Mercenary armies are running amok around the world Candace Rondeaux , A recent report by UN investigators detailed a bungled plot to prop up Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar with mercenaries, allegedly including a special hit squad. Not all the details of that 2019 plot are clear, but it underscores the increasing use and ongoing opacity of operations by private military contractors around the world. It may take years to unravel the tangled web surrounding "Proj...

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February 26 2021, 10:00 a.m. In 2019, Erik Prince, the founder of the notorious mercenary firm Blackwater and a prominent Donald Trump supporter, aided a plot to move U.S.-made attack helicopters, weapons, and other military equipment from Jordan to a renegade commander fighting for control of war-torn Libya. A team of mercenaries planned to use the aircraft to help the commander, Khalifa Hifter, a U.S. citizen and former CIA asset, defeat Libya’s U.N.-recognized and U.S.-backed government....

April 5, 2021 last updated 17:38 ET Blackwater founder Erik Prince arrives for a closed meeting with members of the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Nov. 30, 2017 (AP photo by Jacquelyn Martin). Why Mercenary Armies Are Running Amok It may take years to unravel the tangled web surrounding “Project Opus,” the bungled 2019 mercenary operation to prop up Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar, which allegedly included efforts to deploy a speci...

Feb. 23, 2021 Erik Prince, the private security executive and supporter of former U.S. President Donald Trump, "at the very least" helped evade an arms embargo on Libya, according to excerpts from a United Nations report seen by Reuters. Independent UN sanctions monitors accused Prince of proposing a private military operation - known as Project Opus - to Libyas eastern-based commander Khalifa Haftar in April 2019 and helping procure three aircraft for it. Matthew Schwartz, a lawyer for Prince,...

defenceWeb Written by Reuters - 226 Erik Prince arrives for the New York Young Republican Club Gala at The Yale Club of New York City in Manhattan in New York City, New York, US, 7 November 2019. - Reuters Erik Prince, the private security executive and supporter of former US President Donald Trump, “at the very least” helped evade an arms embargo on Libya, according to excerpts from a United Nations report seen by Reuters. Independent UN sanctions monitors accused Prince of proposing a pr...

AP Erik Prince arrives for a closed meeting with members of the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington.   TribLIVEs Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. UNITED NATIONS — American security contractor Erik Prince, a close ally of former U.S. President Donald Trump, violated the U.N. arms embargo against Libya along with three United Arab Emirates-based companies and their top managers during an operatio...

A British businesswoman and two former Royal Marines have been named in a UN report alongside one of President Trump’s closest advisers for their alleged role in a failed plot to help prop up the

British businesswoman helped in failed plot to aid Libyas Haftar, says UN report Three British citizens have been listed as part of security contractor Erik Princes ill-fated attempt to back the Libyan military commander Libyan general Khalifa Haftar at his desk in Benghazi, Libya on 8 September 2020. (AFP) By Published date: 22 February 2021 12:58 UTC | Last update: 1 month 1 week ago British citizens, including a Dubai-based businesswo...

American security contractor Erik Prince, a close ally of former U.S. President Donald Trump, violated the U.N. arms embargo against Libya along with three United Arab Emirates-based companies and their top managers during an operation to help a rebel military commander take the capital Tripoli, U.N. experts said. In a key section of a report to the U.N. Security Council obtained Sunday by The Associated Press, the panel of experts outlined a well-funded private military company operation cal...