Perhaps key to whole story: "Idea caught attention of Erik Prince, who founded Blackwater, and said he has been informally contacted by Arab officials about the prospect of building a force in Syria but that he was waiting to see what Trump would do." https://t.co/b7ZTzQXk2H

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