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DARK OPS CEO and founder of Blackwater USA, Erik Prince is an enemy you don't want to make

ERIK PRINCE

In addition to being young, rich, and good-looking, Blackwater CEO Erik Prince controls what is arguably the largest private army in the world.

Founded by Prince in 1997, Blackwater operates a sprawling 7,000-acre military training facility in North Carolina (1,200-yard firing range, 20-acre man-made lake, Zeppelin) and contracts out thousands of security agents a year to the US government. The firm has approximately 1,000 troops in Iraq, and some of them have become major targets. In 2004, four of them were gruesomely killed in Fallujah, and now their families are suing Blackwater for wrongful death, claiming the company compromised the safety of the workers for the sake of profit.

Prince doesn't restrict his powerful influence to guns and multi-billion dollar government contracts. He's also a board member of Christian Freedom International, a human rights group that advocates on behalf of persecuted Christians around the world. And he has recently expressed a desire to cleanse Blackwater's image by employing its might to stop the genocide in Darfur.