Blackwater To Create Mercenary Army In The U.A.E.

Xe Services which began life as Blackwater Worldwide founded by Erik Prince a former Navy Seal from the state of North Carolina in America. Blackwater came to worlds attention after an incident in Fallujah Iraq where four of its personnel were killed. Blackwater stated its personnel were delivering food for caterers operating in the area. Iraqi eyewitnesses claimed the four men were raping women and breaking into homes. Throughout America's involvement in Iraq and elsewhere in Asia Blackwater has been implicated in what any reasonable person would call criminal wrong doing.

Baghdad

On February 16, 2005, four Blackwater guards escorting a U.S. State Department convoy fired 70 rounds into an Iraqi's car. The guards stated that they felt threatened by the car's approach. The fate of the car's driver was unknown because the convoy did not stop after the shooting. An investigation by the State Department's Diplomatic Security Service concluded that the shooting was not justified and that the Blackwater employees provided false statements to investigators. The false statements claimed that the one of the Blackwater vehicles had been hit by insurgent gunfire, but the investigation found that one of the Blackwater guards had actually fired into his own vehicle. John Frese, the U.S. embassy in Iraq's top security official, declined to punish Blackwater or the security guards, stating that "any disciplinary actions would be deemed as lowering the morale" of the Blackwater contractors.[93]

As Blackwater's legal troubles continued to mount Erik Price changed its named to Xe Services and moved all operations to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. Prince has always believed that a well trained mercenary army could operate throughout the world at the behest of which ever government might hire them.

Late one night last November, a plane carrying dozens of Colombian men touched down in this glittering seaside capital. Whisked through customs by an Emirati intelligence officer, the group boarded an unmarked bus and drove roughly 20 miles to a windswept military complex in the desert sand.
The Colombians had entered the United Arab Emirates posing as construction workers. In fact, they were soldiers for a secret American-led mercenary army being built by Erik Prince, the billionaire founder of Blackwater Worldwide, with $529 million from the oil-soaked sheikdom.

“The gulf countries, and the U.A.E. in particular, don’t have a lot of military experience. It would make sense if they looked outside their borders for help,” said one Obama administration official who knew of the operation. “They might want to show that they are not to be messed with.”


Just what the world needs a return to mercenary armies controlled by the wealthy operating outside the control of any national government. Given Erik Princes past and his dream of building of mercenary has come true. But how long before the servant attacks the master.