Eric Prince, milliardenschwerer Akteur des military-industrial security complex, Gründer und ehemaliger CEO des privaten Sicherheits- und Militärunternehmens Xe Services (vormals Blackwater USA), baut laut New York Times, für seinen persönlichen Freund Scheich Mohammed, den Kronprinzen von Abu Dhabi, eine geheime Söldner-Armee auf:
" Mr. Prince, who resettled here last year after his security business faced mounting legal problems in the United States, was hired by the crown prince of Abu Dhabi to put together an 800-member battalion of foreign troops for the U.A.E., according to former employees on the project, American officials and corporate documents obtained by The New York Times.The force is intended to conduct special operations missions inside and outside the country, defend oil pipelines and skyscrapers from terrorist attacks and put down internal revolts, the documents show. Such troops could be deployed if the Emirates faced unrest in their crowded labor camps or were challenged by pro-democracy protests like those sweeping the Arab world this year. (...) The gulf countries, and the U.A.E. in particular, don’t have a lot of military experience. It would make sense if they looked outside their borders for help,” said one Obama administration official who knew of the operation. (...) In recent years, the Emirati government has showered American defense companies with billions of dollars to help strengthen the country’s security. A company run by Richard A. Clarke, a former counterterrorism adviser during the Clinton and Bush administrations, has won several lucrative contracts to advise the U.A.E. on how to protect its infrastructure. "
"Im Irak wurde Blackwater auch gezielt von Terroristen angegriffen. Für al-Qaida gilt die Firma bis heute als verlängerter Arm der CIA. Das Terrornetzwerk versuchte auch schon, dem Unternehmen eigene Anschäge unterzuschieben."
Im Irak töteten Blackwater Mitarbeiter hemmungslos Zivilisten und unterstützten einen völkerrechtswidrigen Terrorkrieg. Als verlängerter Arm der CIA gilt Blackwater nicht nur für Al Qaida, diese Verbindungen sind dokumentiert . Die Behauptung der untergeschobenen Anschläge hingegen nicht:
"For the past six years, he appears to have led an astonishing double life. Publicly, he has served as Blackwater’s C.E.O. and chairman. Privately, and secretly, he has been doing the C.I.A.’s bidding, helping to craft, fund, and execute operations ranging from inserting personnel into “denied areas”—places U.S. intelligence has trouble penetrating—to assembling hit teams targeting al-Qaeda members and their allies. Prince, according to sources with knowledge of his activities, has been working as a C.I.A. asset: in a word, as a spy. While his company was busy gleaning more than $1.5 billion in government contracts between 2001 and 2009—by acting, among other things, as an overseas Praetorian guard for C.I.A. and State Department officials—Prince became a Mr. Fix-It in the war on terror. His access to paramilitary forces, weapons, and aircraft, and his indefatigable ambition—the very attributes that have galvanized his critics—also made him extremely valuable, some say, to U.S. intelligence."
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