Erik Prince Goes Back To Iraq But This Time With China’s Money
HONG KONG — A Hong Kong-based security and logistics company founded by Erik Prince is working in the south of Iraq, according to documents obtained by BuzzFeed News.
A subsidiary of the company based in Dubai — Frontier Logistics Consultancy DMCC — registered as a foreign company with Iraq’s Ministry of Trade, a document dated in February of last year shows. The office is based in Basra, an oil-rich region in the south of the country, said a source.Obtained by BuzzFeed News
“This should sound alarm bells for the Iraqi government, who expelled Blackwater from Iraq for deadly behavior,” she said.referred to new offices that it had opened in the Middle East last year, but did not specify which countries. Before FSG, Prince ran Blackwater, a private mercenary group that reaped hundreds of millions of dollars in US military contracts after the September 11 attacks. In a particularly grim moment of the Iraq War in 2007,Iraq booted the company from the country. Blackwater changed its name. And Prince sold the company. Convictions and lawsuits followed.A US soldier stands guard at the site of a car bomb attack in Baghdad, 17 September 2007.
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