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Erik Prince, a military defense contractor and Republican operative, is planning to charge $6,500 per seat on a chartered evacuation flight out of Kabul, Afghanistan, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. Prince said the fee would cover entry to the airport and the flight out, but he would charge passengers more if they require transport to the airport from within the capitol city.
Prince, who founded the private military contractor Blackwater Worldwide, met with then-President Donald Trump's White House advisors in 2017 about his proposal to privatize the US military operation in Afghanistan. Prince's work in the war-for-profit space has been deeply controversial. In 2014, four Blackwater contractors were convicted of killing 17 Iraqi civilians in a 2007 massacre.
Prince violated a UN arms embargo on Libya by delivering weapons and foreign mercenaries to a militia leader planning to overthrow the country's internationally-supported government in 2019.
Prince's sister, Betsy DeVos, was Trump's education secretary and Prince has long been closely allied with Trump and involved in Republican politics. He worked with the far-right group Project Veritas to recruit former British and American spies to infiltrate progressive groups and labor unions, The New York Times reported last year.
https://www.businessinsider.com/erik-prince-charge-6500-for-flight-seat-out-of-kabul-2021-8
JustAnotherGen
(31,816 posts)If he gets involved - the FIRST people who will be hurt will be an American soldier.
He shouldn't be allowed in there at all. Nothing good will ever come from this guy. NOTHING.
OhioBlue
(5,126 posts)Historic NY
(37,449 posts)no commercial aircraft
TxGuitar
(4,190 posts)Dyedinthewoolliberal
(15,569 posts)and if there isn't a hell, may he get slapped by karma for this kind of thinking...........
Carlitos Brigante
(26,500 posts)knows what they know about him, that we don't.