forces all of this in light of blackwater founder erik prince is the latest exploits in the united arab emirates there's a lot to talk about here and for more i'm joined by jeremy scahill he's a national security correspondent for the nation magazine he's also the author of this book here blackwater the rise of the world's most powerful mercenary army journey it's great to have you back on the program thank you so much for being with us and before we get to the real news with the an implacable outer quick reaction to netanyahu speech today i mistakenly thought i was watching a twenty eight twelve nomination party before i realized as just his address to congress right i mean he had at least thirty or forty standing ovations depending on who you ask for warmer reception than president obama has received certainly from the republicans but you could argue also from the democrats it seems as we enter a political season here in the united states that you know you could potentially get the nomination for either the democratic or republican party i mean it's really it's incredible the amount of enthusi

second the leader of the dobie and as these princes prepare to create an army for hire in the united arab emirates learn exactly where the contracting loyalties lie. good evening it's tuesday may seventeenth four pm here in washington d.c. i'm lucy catherine of and you're watching our team. now it's no secret that jobs in the economy are on everyone's mind these days as the bad news seems to continue to just pour in a new numbers from the fed today show that u.s. factory output dropped for the first time in nearly ten months and more evidence that the housing market is continuing to slump but these details while useful to read about missed the really bigger trend of globalization which is really fundamentally changing life as we know it something that former british prime minister gordon brown actually noted in a recent op ed writing in newsweek this week brown said this year for the first time in industrial history the combined forces of both america and europe are being out produced out manufactured i exported and out invested by the rest of the world now a global shift that he says and many eco

administration was in fact aware that erik prince was offering these types of services and united arab emirates you know i have tamed a speech that erik prince gave in late two thousand and nine in front of a military audience in his home state of michigan in which erik prince laid out his vision for the united states to send small teams of mercenaries into countries in the neighborhood of iran with the express intent of countering what erik prince called iran's creeping influence. and whipping up shia revolts in the middle east so erik prince seems to be making good on that whether or not it was sanctioned by the obama administration would really require probing from people on in congress and not just the five people that wrote this letter it would require committees with subpoena power going after them and that was that didn't happen even when the democrats were in control so i think it's going to be left to the usual suspects who do make this and regularly and that's case of the neo cons down to bomb iran then i guess our individual citizens will get to stare out the rest they're wonderful a

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than one thousand nine hundred six world cup winner will spend two years in the united arab emirates in what will be his first coaching rule since overseeing his native argentina the twenty ten world cup but ten year ended after the fifty rules watched his country lose for nil to germany finals in south africa his new team currently sits fourth in the by league with five innings to go. you. know. still got it up a dime in vin zorro has made major league baseball history the kansas city royals pitcher giving up a willful fourteen runs to the cleveland indians resulting in a nineteen one loss for his team incredible really no other player in history has given up so many runs in such a short period of time the twenty four year old taking just over two innings to reach the historic low he would either be kicked off the team into the minor leagues michael brown plea also adding to the royals misery as much as he could the outfielder making it three zero before hammering in another three run homer for a thirteen nothing score in the fourth nineteen two one as i say how it eventually ended

resolutions on libya in the un security council moreover we speak highly of guitars on the united arab emirates positions they were joined by jordan sudan and kuwait which provided will support political support and economic assistance thus all of those countries have supported our revolution he understands the peculiarities of every out of countries position but the most important is the rule of the league of arab states has undertaken to play expressively unanimity of out of states for the first time. as an owner to our revolution. and my last question were you one are the representatives of the national transitional council state many times but the council will comply with previous treaties and agreements after the current conflict and the revolutionaries come to power the same will go for projects on the contracts which started to be implemented before the current events we would like to hear fresh confirmation of the statement. first of all i should say that libya once it becomes a democratic state will fulfill its obligations it's a requirement of international law the work of the incumbe

twenty thousand soldiers currently on foreign soil in lebanon kosovo a new military base in the united arab emirates is fighting wars in libya ivory coast and afghanistan each french have a missile costs hundreds of thousands of euros so just five months into twenty eleven the forces of growth even with madame cato's pension it's pretty much up. operational budget for the year military excess next fall's his reputation as a careful spender investors now plan to scrap the country's troy's aaa credit rating which lets the cheap course if you have a country which is very rich. it can afford it but france has been named as possibly losing its aaa status so so everyone you shoot is the bomb closer to losing a state france should have stuck to the un peacekeeping remits in the oil three coast and libya wants x. premier dominique de villepin. pays the price of gunning for regime change and for each. for integration it's important to follow strict principles the one of the international community treatment of the united nations costs are reportedly hidden from the public this military advisors back from lib

dubai club was all the nine hundred eighty six world cup winner will spend two years in the united arab emirates in what will be his first coaching role since overseeing his native argentina how the twenty ten world cup that tenure ended after the fifty year old watched his country is for new to germany in the quarter finals in south africa his new team currently sit daulton league table with five games to go and the club's owners are delighted with their big name signing. started hearing that he might be interested as a cold so we got excited about that too and the plan for the all the. all the links in negotiations were through. we go to many people think it's a big risk taking money gone but. i think he's worth it with a very bitter over but over. now in the n.b.a. dallas have won the first game the western conference against sokol home edition of it skate scoring an incredible forty eight points nine hundred twenty one hundred twelve dollars this is the first game with the best of seven series the next play again on thursday and again in. the gulf biggest team battle will be contested in fra

uprisings against well armed arguments and all of that one rest has not yet spread to the united arab emirates and u.s. citizen named eric prince you may remember him as having the crown prince of the be prepared that's right according to a new york times reporter the man who founded blackwater a company probably more famous for slaughtering iraqi civilians has set up a private for profit army of mercenaries but happens to have a no muslims hiring policy now i get the whole concept of reinventing yourself but we're not really talking about the artist formerly known as prince here coming out with some sort of new cd this is erik prince and his crew are former soldiers and special ops commandos are training hired guns from colombia and south africa in the middle east i mean what could possibly go wrong well anyway according to a contributing editor at harper's magazine scott horton a lot take a look. the arab world has been swept with people from morocco to game and to bahrain and in fact it's it's largely people that spoke this to on the graphic rulers now most people have identified agu dopy i

couple of years ago than for its other exploits where he's taken his mercenary expertise to the united arab emirates according to a new york times reporter the crown prince of abu dhabi is now working with erik prince to set up a private for profit army that would actually help governments in that region pradelle knows annoying rebels and the kicker this army of mercenaries has a strict no muslims hiring policy now former american soldiers and special ops commandos are busy training hired guns from colombia and south africa and elsewhere in a deal that reportedly earns prince half a billion dollars so far so what could possibly go wrong right but earlier i posed just this question to someone who's very familiar with the shady world of private security contractors scott horton is a contributing editor at harper's magazine and here's part of my conversation with him i think we've seen the because it will make use of a major american motion picture if you know certainly every current star themselves and very very deep trouble in the united states he was even yours a name in a number of grand jury inves