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The United Arab Emirates has confirmed hiring a company headed by Erik Prince, the billionaire founder of the military firm, Blackwater. According to The New York Times, the UAE
secretly signed a $529 million contract with Prince’s new company,
Reflex Responses, to put together an 800-member battalion of
foreign mercenaries. The troops could be
deployed if foreign guest workers stage revolts in labor camps, or
if the UAE regime were challenged by pro-democracy protests like those sweeping the Arab world. Prince has one rule about the new force:
no Muslims. We speak to investigative journalist
Jeremy Scahill and Samer Muscati of Human Rights Watch....."
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