Is Blackwater's Erik Prince Moving to the United Arab Emirates? Jeremy Scahill

[glitch]

http://www.thenation.com/blog/blackwaters-erik-prince-moving-united-arab-emirates

With Blackwater's top deputies indicted on federal charges and the company up for sale, rumors are swirling that Prince is preparing to bolt to a country with no extradition treaty with the US.

Sources close to Blackwater and its secretive owner Erik Prince claim that the embattled head of the world's most infamous mercenary firm is planning to move to the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The Middle Eastern nation, a major hub for the US war industry, has no extradition treaty with the United States. In April, five of Prince's top deputies were hit with a 15-count indictment by a federal Grand Jury on conspiracy, weapons and obstruction of justice charges. Among those indicted were Prince's longtime number two man, former Blackwater president Gary Jackson, former vice presidents William Matthews and Ana Bundy, and Prince's former legal counsel Andrew Howell.

The Blackwater/Erik Prince saga took yet another dramatic turn last week, when Prince abruptly announced that he was putting his company up for sale.

[Catshrink]

1. Halliburton moved there...

so Cheney would have a place to go. Paraguay how has an extradition treaty so the BFFF is screwed is they go to the Bush compound there. (Project X, ya know ;)

[arcadian]

2. Good riddance asshole

Just remember Erik, there is no statute of limitations on War Crimes.

[Ganja Ninja]

5. Don't these people realize that people over there have long memories?

Not that I care what happens to him but after what he's done the last place on earth I would move to is the middle east.

[caledesi]

7. But...but....it's SO patriotic!! Low taxes.....It's about $$$. nt

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

3. So well armed, yet still a world class coward.

Run, Prince, RUN!!!

:rofl:

[elleng]

4. Couldn't think of a better desert for him.

[gratuitous]

6. As if he's in any danger whatsoever

Prince is bulletproof; he will die a free man surrounded by luxury and comfort, unlike so many of his victims.

[glitch]

8. Weird isn't it? He must just find the attention here tedious-war criminals per capita still low here

probably easier to fit in there.

[MineralMan]

9. And they just love Christian Dominionists in the UAE...

Or is that something he'll change? He could become a radical fundamentalist Muslim, I suppose. There's precious little difference.