Blackwater founder Erik Prince to build training campin China's Xinjiang

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Agence France-Presse

Deal is controversial because of sweeping security crackdown that has detained one million Muslims

Agence France-Presse
Thu 31 Jan 2019 23.38 EST

A Hong Kong-listed security firm run by Erik Prince has signed a deal with authorities in China to build a training centre in Xinjiang, where Uighur Muslims have experienced a huge security crackdown.

Frontier Services Group, which specialises in providing security and logistics for businesses operating in risky regions, said it had signed a deal to run a training base in the city of Kashgar, according to a statement posted on its Chinese website.

The firm was founded by Erik Prince, a former US Navy SEAL and the brother of US Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.

Prince was also the founder of the US military contractor Blackwater, whose mercenaries had a prominent and controversial role during Washington’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan – including the 2007 killing of 14 unarmed Iraqi civilians by Blackwater employees.





Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/01/blackwater-founder-erik-prince-to-build-training-camp-in-chinas-xinjiang

[Blue Owl]

1. WTF is this sick criminal still roaming free???

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

6. He's just a business man there to fill a void in the market

It's part of the rich folks world of security.
Maybe the motto should be: "If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten."

[global1]

2. Training For What?....nt

[democratisphere]

3. More scum of the Earth empowered by the drumpfian dynasty.

Sounds like another corrupt enterprise to me.

[dhol82]

4. I think Eric would have been very comfortable in the Gestapo

The man just creeps me out.

[tanyev]

7. Ooh, are they going to get special Ivanka Trump branded gear?

[spike jones]

8. Erik Prince wants to kill two billion people.

"Among his personnel at Xe, Prince is known to be a high-profile Islamophobe who believes his personal mission in life is to bring about the total extinction of the Muslim population of this planet in what he has described as a global campaign of genocide or a, “Crusade.”

http://www.truthistreason.net/erik-prince-blackwater-xe-the-new-christian-crusade

[Mc Mike]

9. Typical Repug 'Patriot'.

Bircher, traitor.

[KPN]

10. This guy is a threat to world peace. Why isn't there a law prohibiting Americans from

developing/financing/administering, participating or conducting mercenary services and operations? Oh yeah, the GOP. War is good, private profit off it even better.