Despite repeated claims by the Obama administration that there were no "American boots" on the Libyan soil to oust the Libyan President Muammar Qaddafi, American mercenaries were indeed involved inside Libya helping the terrorist-infested rebels who eventually killed Qaddafi. In fact, in the Summer of 2010, months before the attack against Qaddafi was launched, the United Arab Emirates had hired a company, Reflex Responses, run by Erik Prince, the billionaire founder of Blackwater Worldwide, to provide "operational, planning and training support" to its military. But it gave no details of the company's project to build a foreign mercenary battalion for the Emirati government.
News of the deal emerged in May 2011, weeks after the UAE's Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, visited President Barack Obama at the White House. In May 2011, the NYT published a written statement from a top Emirati general, Gen. Juma Ali Khalaf al-Hamiri, issued through the UAE's official news agency, that said the country had relied extensively on outside contractors to bolster its military, and that all work with contractors was compliant with international law and relevant conventions. The statement made no mention of the hundreds of Colombian, South African, and other foreign troops training at an Emirati military base. The statement did not mention Erik Prince by name.
However, according to the New York Times, in the summer of 2010, troops were brought to a training camp in the UAE from Colombia, South Africa, and other countries. They were being trained by retired U.S. military personnel and former members of German and British special operations units and the French Foreign Legion.
In November 2011, weeks after Qaddafi was killed, Le Figaro journalist Georges Malbrunot pointed out that at least 5,000 Qatari soldiers who were engaged in the Libyan war, were not Qataris but belonged to Xe private security contractor (former Blackwater). These troops included military and mercenaries from US, UK, France, Australia, Nepal, Jordan, and Kazakhstan. They were sent from Qatar to Tunisia and Egypt. The Tunisian army helped them entering Libyan territories.
According to a leaked Stratfor e-mail reported on by the Lebanon-based Al-Akhbar English, Jamie F. Smith, former director of Blackwater, provided information on missing surface-to-air missiles and allegedly took part in the killing of Muammar Qaddafi in the town of Sirte.
In fact, the book Benghazi: The Definitive Report by SOFREP, Inc., reported the following:
"A video showing Gaddafi's body being dragged and sodomized with a bayonet has voices in the background, voices speaking Spanish with a Colombian accent. Could this misplaced Colombian have been working for the UAE's Reflexive Responses? Set up by Erik Prince — of Blackwater fame — Reflexive Responses was established at the request of one of the UAE's princes. With a core nuclear consisting of Kiwi SAS veterans and South Africans that functions as a counter-terrorist force, the main body of the Private Military Company is known to consist of Colombian military veterans."
