A Blackwater helicopter flies over a bust of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad during the Iraq War.
Erik Prince, founder of Blackwater (now Xe Services), the world’s most notorious private military contractor, is discreetly training an 800-man army capable of defending infrastructure, suppressing rebellions and battling regional state enemies for the UAE. For $529 million, Prince’s new enterprise, Reflex Responses (or R2), has been assembling and training a battalion of men from conflict-stricken countries in Latin America to fight in Sheik Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan’s private forces.
Some observers are concerned that U.S. leaders will privately support Prince’s efforts to strengthen the UAE’s military, since the troops could blunt the regional aggression of Iran. Federal law prohibits American citizens from training foreign troops without State Department permission. —ARK
The New York Times:
Mr. Prince, who resettled (in Abu Dhabi) 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 or were challenged by pro-democracy demonstrations in its crowded labor camps or democracy protests like those sweeping the Arab world this year.
… People involved in the project and American officials said that the Emiratis were interested in deploying the battalion to respond to terrorist attacks and put down uprisings inside the country’s sprawling labor camps, which house the Pakistanis, Filipinos and other foreigners who make up the bulk of the country’s work force. The foreign military force was planned months before the so-called Arab Spring revolts that many experts believe are unlikely to spread to the U.A.E.
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We need a revolution, to include our own military, to stop the world’s largest false-flag black-bag-not so secret terrorist gang with a license to terrorize, torture and indiscimately kill the innocent. There’s safety and strength in numbers. If you confront a “bully” they will fold like a cheap tent in the wind.
By SarcastiCanuck, May 16, 2011 at 12:23 pm Link to this comment
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Nice,a Republican Guard built so the Shieks can keep thier feet on the throats of thier own people.No Arab Spring for UAE.Also please don’t insult me by saying these 800 mercenaries are going to ‘blunt the regional aggression of Iran’.The Pasdaran will walk over them like ants if they piss off the Persians.
Also if it wasn’t Erik Prince it would be some other soldier who understands true human nature and profits from it.Whats truly scary is that Mr.Prince is probably the most honest one of em all.
TDoff: You should write a book: “Nightmares of my Farthers”—“farthers” being nightmares that are farther out than any others. Seriously, maybe you are the Gilbert and Sullivan we’ve been waiting for?
BREAKING NEWS! Today at 9:02AM, EST, Wikileaks revealed that the DHS entered a $4.2Trillion contract with Eric Prince, owner of Xe, whose armed forces, in aggregate, form the world’s largest standing army, and Shalom Nutanyahoo, commander of MOSSAD, the world’s largest false-flag black-bag not-so-secret terrorist gang, to provide a top-secret ‘Self-Defense Force’ for the DHS to ‘Assure it’s future if world-wide Peace breaks out’.
According to Janet Napolitano, commandant of the DHS, which is second only to the US DOD in terms of a massive self-promoting bureaucratic assemblage of wasteful spenders and self-aggrandizing, self-appointed ‘Saviors of The Free World’, ‘The DHS could face a dire emergency that would threaten it’s very existence and thus the very existence of the USA, any day now!’.
Napolitano, who prefers to be called ‘Ms. Janet’, and is the scheduled centerfold in NOW magazine’s upcoming Halloween edition, posited this horrific possibility: ‘Suppose one of these days all of the Taliban and Al Qaeda terrorists suddenly decide to give up, or were stricken with a ‘god’-given fatal viral debility, or, even worse, some new, traitorous progressive US President were to negotiate peace terms with these despicables? There would be instant demands to redirect DHS funding toward childhood education, and health care for the general populace, and aid and assistance to the disabled and needy amongst us, plus the rebuilding of our crumbling roads and bridges, the establishing of a ‘green’ environment, etc…in short, the DHS’s very existence would be questioned!’. (There was a short pause while Ms. Janet’s consort, Ms. Ellen, wiped a tear from the DHS commandant’s eye).
‘We cannot let this happen!’, Ms. Janet continued. ‘So the new DHS Self-Defense Force is being formed to create apparent terrorist attacks upon the US when and where needed to assure the maintenance of a level of fear among the American people that will justify the MIC lobbyist’s efforts to keep the craven members of the US Congress supplying the funding to maintain, and increase when possible, the costs of operating the DHS. Including, of course, the ever-increasing amounts of political contributions to our valiant supporters throughout the US Government’.
That’s the end of the Wikileaks report. But keep your eyes open, citizens, and keep in mind that the next time you see a terrorist attack in process, it may merely be a small, secret group of mercenaries and Zionist spies setting off a low-yield dirty nuclear device to capture the attention of the US MSM and maintain the DHS at the level to which it has become accustomed.
Your tax dollars at work. (Unless you are a Plutocrat/Ruler of the US, in which case it’s ‘Their tax dollars at work’)
One common thread in these unstable countries seems to be that no matter how many of their own young people are miserably poor and desperate for jobs .. there’s the reality of large numbers of immigrants brought in to do the work.
Here’s the reference to this in the above article: ” inside the country’s sprawling labor camps, which house the Pakistanis, Filipinos and other foreigners who make up the bulk of the country’s work force. “
That’s not closely discussed in the news here. When it is, the focus is on those foreigners as ‘needed labor’ or even as potential victims of popular anger and protest.
Almost the same way we in the US ‘debate’ immigration and our own immigration policy.
By postingtonhuff, May 15, 2011 at 6:28 pm Link to this comment
(Unregistered commenter)
“Seems to me that for a significant portion of the
world’s population Prince is the equivalent of what bin
Laden was to the USA, A MURDERER AND TERRORIST! May his
fate be that of Osama’s! Why is this creature still at
large? FREE BRADLEY MANNING!!!!!”
damned right. he seems to have taken literally the
whole christian soldier business. sic semper tyrannis.
Blackwater/Xe has a great future. As soon as the UAE sends it’s Prince-formed mercenary army into a successful war, and decimates one of it’s neighbors, the demand for private mercenary armies will be brisk.
ExxonMobile, General Electric, Boeing, Facebook, Google, BP, Goldman Sachs, B of A, etc., will all form their own armies. And probably do it for less than they are now spending to bribe Congress, the Executive Office, and the Courts. So their stock prices should rise as their expenses drop.
During the transition to armying-up, the corporations will no longer have to put up with the annoyance of the occasional too-greedy Representative or Senator or President or Justice, who wants to negotiate to increase his take from the industry-agreed-upon scale of bribes. At the first sign of intransigence, the corporations will just rent and dispatch a Blackwater/Xe Special Forces ‘Seal’ Team to take the miscreant out.
Once these corporate private armies are nuke-equipped (which shouldn’t take long, Israel is jumping on this great new business opportunity, and is already entering negotiations with Eric Prince to start supplying Blackwater/Xe with unlimited numbers of strategic and tactical nuclear weapons), they’ll be able to rule the world with no dissent, as their ‘god’ intended and promised them, in their ‘Book of Mammon’.
And then, thank ‘god’, the people of the US will no longer have to abide the current absurd political party system, and the inane speeches, posturings, and other frivolities of the republicans, democrats, and occasional weird fringe ‘third-party’ mopes. The people will be able to relax and just follow the demands and dictates of their true ‘leaders/rulers’, the corporate CEO’s, the Plutocrats of the financial ‘industry’, the MSM, AIPAC, and the other various nefarious amoral gangs that have arisen and corrupted the ideals of the American Dream in order to achieve financial ‘success’.
Seems to me that for a significant portion of the world’s population Prince is the equivalent of what bin Laden was to the USA, A MURDERER AND TERRORIST! May his fate be that of Osama’s! Why is this creature still at large? FREE BRADLEY MANNING!!!!!
May I refer you to an article in English Al Jazeera, 5/16/11 by Hamid Dabachi, Prof. of Iranian Studies at Columbia, entitled “The Predicament of the Islamic Republic.” In it he discusses among other things the unique strength of non-violent protest and its significance for the “Arab Spring” movements.
We don’t hear anything about this here, for obvious reasons. It is a ray of light in a very dark and dis-couraging world. Even Prince Hasaan of Jordan has apparently heard of, if not read, Gene Sharp, and
said in a recent interview that because ruling figures “don’t get it” (that is, the significance of the nonviolent youth movements now demanding democratic rule) they will meet “the human dignity deficit” with violence because it’s, in effect, standard procedure.
What is lacking everywhere is the imagination and courage to study strategies of peaceful resistance used in India, So. Africa, U.S. and Poland, and devise methods beyond and above killing, maiming and destroying. I myself believe that it is this “lack of imagination” that is destroying the U.S., and permitting Blackwater, X and other such mercenaries to function is clear evidence of it. Same old sick, overblown gangsterism—kill for money, exploit the world’s poverty-stricken, jobless young men. Turn them into savages. It’s cheap, crude, subhuman—what else can I say? As long as it’s permitted as a legitimate business, it will go on.
hello. that could be a very difficult position to be
in. there are days I believe we should carpet bomb
Dubai, just out of principle. they are not so secret
anymore, but are far more engaging than our TSA. do
they also train bank robbers? professional killers
incorporated: security is their game, and radical
technology is their fame. they do what you want our
army to do, without the political publicity. murder on
the hush-hush, the good old fashioned way. too insecure
to travel? ride with a group of trigger happy killers.
trust them. we are exporting murder.
By Don LeBaron, May 15, 2011 at 10:57 am Link to this comment
(Unregistered commenter)
Yes, sadly we are headed for a “reign of terror”. Of course, it has already begun, and will now escalate. Those addicted to power will never stop of their own accord. These are the cycles of human occupation on this earth. Will we learn the lessons this time around or just annihilate ourselves?
By M L, May 16, 2011 at 3:48 pm Link to this comment
(Unregistered commenter)
We need a revolution, to include our own military, to stop the world’s largest false-flag black-bag-not so secret terrorist gang with a license to terrorize, torture and indiscimately kill the innocent. There’s safety and strength in numbers. If you confront a “bully” they will fold like a cheap tent in the wind.
Report thisBy SarcastiCanuck, May 16, 2011 at 12:23 pm Link to this comment
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Nice,a Republican Guard built so the Shieks can keep thier feet on the throats of thier own people.No Arab Spring for UAE.Also please don’t insult me by saying these 800 mercenaries are going to ‘blunt the regional aggression of Iran’.The Pasdaran will walk over them like ants if they piss off the Persians.
Report thisAlso if it wasn’t Erik Prince it would be some other soldier who understands true human nature and profits from it.Whats truly scary is that Mr.Prince is probably the most honest one of em all.
By gerard, May 16, 2011 at 10:45 am Link to this comment
TDoff: You should write a book: “Nightmares of my Farthers”—“farthers” being nightmares that are farther out than any others. Seriously, maybe you are the Gilbert and Sullivan we’ve been waiting for?
Report thisBy rico, suave, May 16, 2011 at 7:57 am Link to this comment
If truthdig knows about it, how secret can it be?
Report thisBy Octopodian, May 16, 2011 at 7:13 am Link to this comment
Onward,Christian so-oh-ohl-djers,
Report thisMarching as to War,
With the Cross of-
Jesus Christ, what the hell are are they thinking?
By TDoff, May 16, 2011 at 6:58 am Link to this comment
BREAKING NEWS! Today at 9:02AM, EST, Wikileaks revealed that the DHS entered a $4.2Trillion contract with Eric Prince, owner of Xe, whose armed forces, in aggregate, form the world’s largest standing army, and Shalom Nutanyahoo, commander of MOSSAD, the world’s largest false-flag black-bag not-so-secret terrorist gang, to provide a top-secret ‘Self-Defense Force’ for the DHS to ‘Assure it’s future if world-wide Peace breaks out’.
According to Janet Napolitano, commandant of the DHS, which is second only to the US DOD in terms of a massive self-promoting bureaucratic assemblage of wasteful spenders and self-aggrandizing, self-appointed ‘Saviors of The Free World’, ‘The DHS could face a dire emergency that would threaten it’s very existence and thus the very existence of the USA, any day now!’.
Napolitano, who prefers to be called ‘Ms. Janet’, and is the scheduled centerfold in NOW magazine’s upcoming Halloween edition, posited this horrific possibility: ‘Suppose one of these days all of the Taliban and Al Qaeda terrorists suddenly decide to give up, or were stricken with a ‘god’-given fatal viral debility, or, even worse, some new, traitorous progressive US President were to negotiate peace terms with these despicables? There would be instant demands to redirect DHS funding toward childhood education, and health care for the general populace, and aid and assistance to the disabled and needy amongst us, plus the rebuilding of our crumbling roads and bridges, the establishing of a ‘green’ environment, etc…in short, the DHS’s very existence would be questioned!’. (There was a short pause while Ms. Janet’s consort, Ms. Ellen, wiped a tear from the DHS commandant’s eye).
‘We cannot let this happen!’, Ms. Janet continued. ‘So the new DHS Self-Defense Force is being formed to create apparent terrorist attacks upon the US when and where needed to assure the maintenance of a level of fear among the American people that will justify the MIC lobbyist’s efforts to keep the craven members of the US Congress supplying the funding to maintain, and increase when possible, the costs of operating the DHS. Including, of course, the ever-increasing amounts of political contributions to our valiant supporters throughout the US Government’.
That’s the end of the Wikileaks report. But keep your eyes open, citizens, and keep in mind that the next time you see a terrorist attack in process, it may merely be a small, secret group of mercenaries and Zionist spies setting off a low-yield dirty nuclear device to capture the attention of the US MSM and maintain the DHS at the level to which it has become accustomed.
Your tax dollars at work. (Unless you are a Plutocrat/Ruler of the US, in which case it’s ‘Their tax dollars at work’)
Report thisBy SoTexGuy, May 16, 2011 at 4:53 am Link to this comment
One common thread in these unstable countries seems to be that no matter how many of their own young people are miserably poor and desperate for jobs .. there’s the reality of large numbers of immigrants brought in to do the work.
Here’s the reference to this in the above article: ” inside the country’s sprawling labor camps, which house the Pakistanis, Filipinos and other foreigners who make up the bulk of the country’s work force. “
That’s not closely discussed in the news here. When it is, the focus is on those foreigners as ‘needed labor’ or even as potential victims of popular anger and protest.
Almost the same way we in the US ‘debate’ immigration and our own immigration policy.
Interesting.
Report thisBy postingtonhuff, May 15, 2011 at 6:28 pm Link to this comment
(Unregistered commenter)
“Seems to me that for a significant portion of the
world’s population Prince is the equivalent of what bin
Laden was to the USA, A MURDERER AND TERRORIST! May his
fate be that of Osama’s! Why is this creature still at
large? FREE BRADLEY MANNING!!!!!”
damned right. he seems to have taken literally the
Report thiswhole christian soldier business. sic semper tyrannis.
By grokker, May 15, 2011 at 6:17 pm Link to this comment
Thanks, TDoff I think you very well hit the nail right on the head!!
Report thisBy TDoff, May 15, 2011 at 5:57 pm Link to this comment
Blackwater/Xe has a great future. As soon as the UAE sends it’s Prince-formed mercenary army into a successful war, and decimates one of it’s neighbors, the demand for private mercenary armies will be brisk.
ExxonMobile, General Electric, Boeing, Facebook, Google, BP, Goldman Sachs, B of A, etc., will all form their own armies. And probably do it for less than they are now spending to bribe Congress, the Executive Office, and the Courts. So their stock prices should rise as their expenses drop.
During the transition to armying-up, the corporations will no longer have to put up with the annoyance of the occasional too-greedy Representative or Senator or President or Justice, who wants to negotiate to increase his take from the industry-agreed-upon scale of bribes. At the first sign of intransigence, the corporations will just rent and dispatch a Blackwater/Xe Special Forces ‘Seal’ Team to take the miscreant out.
Once these corporate private armies are nuke-equipped (which shouldn’t take long, Israel is jumping on this great new business opportunity, and is already entering negotiations with Eric Prince to start supplying Blackwater/Xe with unlimited numbers of strategic and tactical nuclear weapons), they’ll be able to rule the world with no dissent, as their ‘god’ intended and promised them, in their ‘Book of Mammon’.
And then, thank ‘god’, the people of the US will no longer have to abide the current absurd political party system, and the inane speeches, posturings, and other frivolities of the republicans, democrats, and occasional weird fringe ‘third-party’ mopes. The people will be able to relax and just follow the demands and dictates of their true ‘leaders/rulers’, the corporate CEO’s, the Plutocrats of the financial ‘industry’, the MSM, AIPAC, and the other various nefarious amoral gangs that have arisen and corrupted the ideals of the American Dream in order to achieve financial ‘success’.
Report thisBy berniem, May 15, 2011 at 5:29 pm Link to this comment
Seems to me that for a significant portion of the world’s population Prince is the equivalent of what bin Laden was to the USA, A MURDERER AND TERRORIST! May his fate be that of Osama’s! Why is this creature still at large? FREE BRADLEY MANNING!!!!!
Report thisBy gerard, May 15, 2011 at 3:23 pm Link to this comment
May I refer you to an article in English Al Jazeera, 5/16/11 by Hamid Dabachi, Prof. of Iranian Studies at Columbia, entitled “The Predicament of the Islamic Republic.” In it he discusses among other things the unique strength of non-violent protest and its significance for the “Arab Spring” movements.
We don’t hear anything about this here, for obvious reasons. It is a ray of light in a very dark and dis-couraging world. Even Prince Hasaan of Jordan has apparently heard of, if not read, Gene Sharp, and
said in a recent interview that because ruling figures “don’t get it” (that is, the significance of the nonviolent youth movements now demanding democratic rule) they will meet “the human dignity deficit” with violence because it’s, in effect, standard procedure.
What is lacking everywhere is the imagination and courage to study strategies of peaceful resistance used in India, So. Africa, U.S. and Poland, and devise methods beyond and above killing, maiming and destroying. I myself believe that it is this “lack of imagination” that is destroying the U.S., and permitting Blackwater, X and other such mercenaries to function is clear evidence of it. Same old sick, overblown gangsterism—kill for money, exploit the world’s poverty-stricken, jobless young men. Turn them into savages. It’s cheap, crude, subhuman—what else can I say? As long as it’s permitted as a legitimate business, it will go on.
Report thisBy rollzone, May 15, 2011 at 12:01 pm Link to this comment
hello. that could be a very difficult position to be
Report thisin. there are days I believe we should carpet bomb
Dubai, just out of principle. they are not so secret
anymore, but are far more engaging than our TSA. do
they also train bank robbers? professional killers
incorporated: security is their game, and radical
technology is their fame. they do what you want our
army to do, without the political publicity. murder on
the hush-hush, the good old fashioned way. too insecure
to travel? ride with a group of trigger happy killers.
trust them. we are exporting murder.
By Don LeBaron, May 15, 2011 at 10:57 am Link to this comment
(Unregistered commenter)
Yes, sadly we are headed for a “reign of terror”. Of course, it has already begun, and will now escalate. Those addicted to power will never stop of their own accord. These are the cycles of human occupation on this earth. Will we learn the lessons this time around or just annihilate ourselves?
Report this