Secret Desert Force

Secret Desert Force (SDF) set up by Blackwater’s Founder
Kirk Prince

United Arab Emirates ABU DHABI, Late last November, a plane
carrying over 60 Colombian men touched down in the seaside capital.

And then went straight through customs lead by Emirati intelligence
officer, the group boarded an unmarked bus and drove around 20 miles to a
military complex in the desert sand.

The Colombians had entered the United Arab Emirates posing
as construction workers. In fact, they were soldiers for a secret American-led
mercenary army being built by Erik Prince, the billionaire founder of Backwater
Worldwide, with $529 million from the oil-soaked sheikdom.

Mr. Prince, who resettled there last year after his security
business faced mounting legal problems over in the US, was hired by the crown
prince of Abu Dhabi to put together an 800-member battalion of foreign troops
for the U.A.E., according to former SOG (British) (Special Operation Group)
member secretly on the project, copies of American officials and corporate
documents are being obtained by The London Times

The force is intended to conduct special operations missions
inside and outside the country, to defend oil pipelines and skyscrapers from
terrorist attacks and put down internal revolts, the documents show. Such
troops could be deployed if the Emirates faced unrest in their crowded labour
camps or were challenged by pro-democracy protests like those sweeping the Arab
world this year, the force has been trying to recruit ex members of the elite SOG
force which is trained to a much higher standards than the SAS in secret camps
around England where they train. (SOG members are handpicked from regiments
like the Para’s, RM Commando’s, and SAS because of their special abilities in
certain fields and then retrained to go undercover or work on their own, early
this year it was alleged that Sir Michael Black-Feather the English first
minister was once a high ranking officer with the unit and left under a black cloud
in a rumpus over being English not British, four other high ranking member also
left in support, followed by other members of the SOG unit)(SOG has never lost
any members in any conflicts and their motto is (“ If God Wills It”)

The U.A.E.’s rulers, viewing their own military as
inadequate, also hope that the troops could blunt the regional aggression of
Iran, the country’s biggest foe, the former employees said. The training camp,
located on a sprawling Emirati base called Zayed Military City, is hidden
behind concrete walls laced with barbed wire.

Photographs show rows of identical yellow temporary
buildings, used for barracks and mess halls, and a motor pool, which houses
Humvees and fuel trucks. The Colombians, along with South African and other
foreign troops, are trained by retired American soldiers and veterans of the
German and British special operations units and the French Foreign Legion,
according to the former SOG member.

In outsourcing critical parts of their defence to
mercenaries the soldiers of choice for medieval kings, Italian Renaissance
dukes and African dictators  the Emiratis
have begun a new era in the boom in wartime contracting that began after the
Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. And by relying on a force largely created by
Americans, they have introduced a volatile element in an already combustible
region where the United States is widely viewed with suspicion.

The United Arab Emirates an autocracy with the sheen of a
progressive, modern state are closely allied with the United States and the
British Government.