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Erik Prince and the Failed Plot to Arm a CIA Asset-Turned-Warlord in Libya
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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. While the U.N. has alleged that Prince helped facilitate the mercenary effort, sources with knowledge of the chain of events, as well as documents obtained by The Intercept, reveal new details about the scheme as well as Prince’s yearslong campaign to support Hifter in his bid to take power in Libya.
Declan Walsh, The New York Times
Published: 20 Feb 2021 08:30 PM BdST
Updated: 20 Feb 2021 08:30 PM BdST Erik Prince, the former head of the security contractor Blackwater Worldwide and a prominent supporter of former President Donald Trump, heads to a House Intelligence Committee hearing in Washington on Nov 30, 2017. Prince offered to supply weapons, drones and mercenaries to a Libyan militia commander seeking to overthrow the government, according to UN investigators. (Zach Gibson/The New York Times)
Erik Prince, the former head of the security contractor Blackwater Worldwide and a prominent supporter of former President Donald Trump, violated a United Nations arms embargo on Libya by sending weapons to a militia commander who was attempting to overthrow the internationally backed government, according to UN investigators.
Trump ally violated UN arms embargo with Libya mission involving British mercenaries, leaked report alleges
The mission allegedly included plans to track and kill Libyan commanders, including some who were also European Union citizens
Erik Prince
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An ally of Donald Trump violated an arms embargo on Libya by sending British and other foreign mercenaries into the midst of the country s civil war, UN investigations found in a report seen by US media outlets.
The confidential report is the result of an 18-month investigation and was delivered to the UN Security Council on Thursday and later leaked to the
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