Blackwater Founder Said to Back Mercenaries
WASHINGTON — Erik Prince, the founder of the international security giant Blackwater Worldwide, is 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 troops, and battling pirates and Islamic militants there, according to American and Western officials…
…With its barely functional government and a fierce hostility to foreign armies since the hasty American withdrawal from Mogadishu in the early 1990s, Somalia is a country where Western militaries have long feared to tread. The Somali government has been cornered in a small patch of Mogadishu by the Shabab, a Somali militant group with ties to Al Qaeda.
Hey Erik. If you happen to be reading, you might not want to rush and send all of your military assets to Somalia quite yet to fight al shabab, because at the rate things are going here in America, it shouldn't be too long before a large number of al shabab members are residing here in the U.S.
Some additional video footage for the readers, as well as this commentary, and also this commentary.
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