Erik Prince, the founder of the notorious mercenary firm Blackwater aided a mission called Project Opus to move attack helicopters and weapons made in the U.S., to a renegade commander named - Khalifa Hifter, in Libya. Khalifa Hifter is a U.S. citizen and formerly worked as a CIA asset. Hifter needed these helicopters and weapons to defeat Libya's government, which was backed by the U.S. U.N. has alleged that Prince supported Khalifa Hifter to take power in Libya.
In 2019, Prince called an officer, who was a member of Trump’s National Security Council, to meet his business associate Christiaan Durrant. Durrant asked for the U.S. support for the campaign backed by Hifter.
As per Prince’s lawyer, Matthew Schwartz - “Mr. Prince had no involvement in any alleged military operation in Libya in 2019, or at any other time. The statement said, “He did not provide weapons, personnel, or military equipment to anyone in Libya,” as reported by The Intercept.
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