company:presidential airways

  • #Blackwater contourne la loi allemande.
    http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,732127,00.html

    Confidential American diplomatic dispatches now show that another company belonging to Blackwater founder Erik Prince exported German military helicopters to Afghanistan with scant regard for German law.

    Presidential Airways purchased three SA-330 J “Puma” helicopters in Germany for use in providing logistical support to US forces in Afghanistan. But because it was taking too long to get the necessary German export permit, and its employees didn’t want to wait, they simply took the helicopters out of the country in October 2008, first to Britain, and then on to Turkey.

    Et toujours cette trouille de l’opinion publique :

    A concerned William Timken, the then US ambassador to Germany, warned the State Department that “the issue could become public in Germany and would take on proportions well beyond the significance of a few helicopters given the widespread public skepticism about Germany’s engagement in #Afghanistan.”

    #Allemagne #cablegate