Dyncorp was mostly in the North AOR. I spent a bit of time is Mosul, Kirkuk and Irbil. This was Kurd country and the overall sentiment among the Kurds was predominantly Anti-Saddam and anti-Bathe party. We were even staying in a Chaldean neighborhood while in Erbil and were able to freely mingle with the residents there. They even had a fake 7-11 convenience store there. I thought that was awesome.
I'm sure there were bad apples in all the companies, I'm just am not buying the simplistic narrative of they were all evil mercenary types that were robbing, pillaging, murdering rapists. I think that is more of a UN security force thing. 60k rapes over 10 years is a UN statistic, whereas there may have been a handful of bad actions on Blackwater over the same 10 years. I just get the impression that this was a article that looks like a smear against Prince and by association against Trump.
That’s good perspective. My brother did a stint with them when they were still Blackwater, had a similar impression.
But Dyncorp got away with a sordid crime ring because it was pretty well covered up.
Dyncorp was mostly in the North AOR. I spent a bit of time is Mosul, Kirkuk and Irbil. This was Kurd country and the overall sentiment among the Kurds was predominantly Anti-Saddam and anti-Bathe party. We were even staying in a Chaldean neighborhood while in Erbil and were able to freely mingle with the residents there. They even had a fake 7-11 convenience store there. I thought that was awesome.
Dyncorp is a CIA front company. They were booted from AFG for trafficking drugs, flying high, and transporting children from point a to point b.
I'm sure there were bad apples in all the companies, I'm just am not buying the simplistic narrative of they were all evil mercenary types that were robbing, pillaging, murdering rapists. I think that is more of a UN security force thing. 60k rapes over 10 years is a UN statistic, whereas there may have been a handful of bad actions on Blackwater over the same 10 years. I just get the impression that this was a article that looks like a smear against Prince and by association against Trump.