Thread by @MsMariaT

Erik Prince, Trump ally, violated Libya arms embargo in 2019, U.N. report says seattletimes.com/nation-world/e… via @seattletimes

@seattletimes "Eastern Libya is now in the hands of Khalifa Hifter (General Haftar), the powerful militia commander whom Prince agreed to support, according to the report, as the country was wracked by fighting in 2019."

@seattletimes "A confidential UN report obtained by NYT and delivered by investigators to the Sec Council... reveals how Prince deployed a force of foreign mercenaries, armed w/ attack aircraft, gunboats and cyberwarfare capabilities, to eastern Libya at the height of a major battle in 2019."

@seattletimes "A Western official...said the investigators had also obtained phone records showing that Prince’s friend and former partner made several calls to the main White House switchboard in late July 2019, after the mercenary operation ran into trouble."

@seattletimes "In April 2019, Hifter [Haftar] launched a blistering assault on the capital, Tripoli, but formidable obstacles stood in his way, including newly arrived troops from Turkey supporting the U.N.-backed government. So Hifter [Haftar] turned to Prince."

@seattletimes Rudy Giuliani's associates are here, too, you guys:

"Correia used ME expert and frequent Fox contributor Walid Phares to help set up a mtg in the summer of 2018 w/ Okba Haftar, the son of renegade Libyan general Khalifa Haftar, according to Phares."

cnn.com/2019/12/23/pol…

@seattletimes That Libyan General that Devin Nunes says he visited (before he popped up in Malta), Khalifa Haftar...he's Russian backed.

Erdogan says Turkey won't be silent over mercenaries in Libya

reuters.com/article/us-lib…

@seattletimes Someone who would know: "This is worth revisiting.

"Between November 30, 2018 and December 3, 2018, Devin Nunes visited Benghazi, Libya on official business of the House Intelligence Committee to discuss security issues with General Khalifa Haftar"

https://twitter.com/RYP__/status/1286681125776048128

Devin Nunes says: "Devin Nunes did not go to Vienna or anywhere else in Austria in 2018.

Between 11/30/18 and 12/3/18 Nunes visited Benghazi, Libya on official business of the House Intel Committee to discuss security issues w/ Gen Khalifa Haftar."

courthousenews.com/wp-content/upl…

In 2018, Did Devin Nunes help set up Erik Prince's 2019 Libya drug deal?

Why did Devin Nunes never disclose this trip, previously?

https://twitter.com/MsMariaT/status/1362921728872124416