Black Shield, UAE arm to recruit mercenaries for external wars

To recruit mercenaries for wars and external conflicts, especially in Yemen, Libya, and other countries, Black Shield company is the UAE’s first resort.

Few days ago, a protest by hundreds of Sudanese youth in front of the UAE embassy in Khartoum brought Black Shield Company file to the surface. The company said it had hired more than 270 Sudanese to work in private escort in facilities in the UAE, but the truth was that company trained them militarily to transport them to fight in Yemen and Libya.

The protesters demanded the company, registered in the UAE, to apologize to the Sudanese people for what they said was a deception.

The UAE uses other companies to intervene militarily in the war in Yemen and Libya, by recruiting mercenaries to fight alongside the forces that the UAE supports in the two countries.

Western media confirmed that the UAE authorities use Western private security company to recruit mercenaries from many countries to fight in Yemen.

In October 2018, the American news site, BuzzFeed, revealed that the UAE had funded a program to assassinate politicians and imams in Yemen, especially leaders of the National Rally for Reform and Development, using American mercenaries within an Israeli-run company.

The American website said that the American Group that the UAE contracted with in 2015 was founded by the Israeli-Hungarian Abraham Golan, which in turn hired American mercenaries who were working in various American military services.

The website indicated that the deal that brought American mercenaries to the streets of Aden, was arranged for a lunch in Abu Dhabi in an Italian restaurant in the officers’ club at an Emirati military base in the presence of Isaac Gilmore – a former US Navy soldier – and the dismissed leader of the Palestinian National Liberation Movement (Fatah) Muhammad Dahlan is currently settled in the Emirates.

At the end of 2015, the American New York Times published an article in which it said that groups of mercenaries from Latin American countries estimated at more than 450 mercenaries were seen wearing the Emirati military uniform in Yemen.

The newspaper added that these mercenaries were recruited in the Emirates before being deployed to Yemen.

Yemeni websites have also reported that the UAE has signed a $529 million worth contract with Reflex Response Security Consultants, which is currently managed by Eric Prince, founder of the notorious Blackwater Company, and are being prosecuted on several charges, including criminal.

Reflex Response is one of the new names for Blackwater, after it was announced closed for murder in Iraq in 2007.