Trump ally Erik Prince violated Libya arms embargo: UN report
Confidential report finds Prince supplied renegade Libyan general Khalifa Haftar with weapons and foreign mercenaries.
Private security contractor Erik Prince, a close ally of former US President Donald Trump, violated a United Nations arms embargo on Libya, UN investigators have found in a report detailed by US media.
The confidential report to the Security Council, obtained by The New York Times and The Washington Post, and partly seen by Al Jazeera, said on Friday that Prince deployed a force of foreign mercenaries and weapons to renegade military commander Khalifa Haftar, who has fought to overthrow the UN-recognised Libyan government, in 2019.
The $80m operation included plans to form a hit squad to track and kill Libyan commanders opposed to Haftar – including some who were also European Union citizens, The New York Times said.
Prince, a former Navy SEAL and brother of Trump’s education secretary Betsy Devos, drew infamy as the head of the Blackwater private security firm, whose contractors were accused of killing unarmed Iraqi civilians in Baghdad in 2007.
Four who were convicted were pardoned by Trump last year.
The accusation exposes Prince to possible UN sanctions, including a travel ban, the Times said.
Prince did not cooperate with the UN inquiry and his lawyer declined to comment to The New York Times, it added.
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Gee, a former CIA operative violated a UN imposed Libyan arms embargo? The US State Department didn't? What was the purpose of that complex in Benghazi then?
ReplyDeleteTo me the shocker is that that Dark Erik will be let off, possibly with a fine or a 'community order'. Hard working criminals like minor meth dealers might get 15 years.
DeleteOur whole 'value based system' and 'Law and Order' framework is a shambles. Personal experience, that...
You should have charged Hillary Clinton. She's the one who hired him to run guns there.
Delete...and I agree, we have a two tiered Justice System and the little guys get none of it.
DeleteErik Prince wasn't prosecuted because he was a lackey for the first tier.
DeleteHmmm... would you have agreed to prosecute Bush/Blair for the Iraq debacle?
ReplyDeleteI would prosecute Bush for not supporting Moqtada al Sadr and his mentor, Grand Ayatollah Ali al Sistani. If they had, Iran would now be an Iraqi satellite.
DeleteAs regards the justice system I can only advise this: STAY WELL CLEAR!
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