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Erik Prince’s Contractors Ambushed in Eastern Congo: About 20 Killed or Wounded, Ex-Green Beret Tim Kennedy Shot Three Times

A Sept. 17 ambush in South Kivu on a team from Vectus Global, the Blackwater founder’s firm working for Congo’s government, killed at least eight people, including a former New Zealand SAS soldier. Sources told Reuters Rwandan forces carried it out; no government has said who did.

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Erik Prince, the Blackwater founder whose firm Vectus Global works for Congo’s government. (File photo)Miller Center / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0)

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