**Blackwater founder held secret Seychelles meeting to establish Trump-Putin back channel**

[SummerSnow]

By Adam Entous, Greg Miller, Kevin Sieff and Karen DeYoung April 3 at 4:29 PM
The United Arab Emirates arranged a secret meeting in January between Blackwater founder Erik Prince and a Russian close to President Vladi­mir Putin as part of an apparent effort to establish a back-channel line of communication between Moscow and President-elect Donald Trump, according to U.S., European and Arab officials.

The meeting took place around Jan. 11 — nine days before Trump’s inauguration — in the Seychelles islands in the Indian Ocean, officials said. Though the full agenda remains unclear, the UAE agreed to broker the meeting in part to explore whether Russia could be persuaded to curtail its relationship with Iran, including in Syria, a Trump administration objective that would be likely to require major concessions to Moscow on U.S. sanctions.


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[brush]

1. Wow! Something new everyday about these traitors.

[riversedge]

2. msnbc just reported on this.

[underpants]

3. DeVos's brother

Thanks for the seed money to get Blackwater / Xe up and running W (and Cheney).

[rockfordfile]

4. I'm willing to think he has met with them "back channel" a number of times

[Ilsa]

5. K&R. nt