00:00These are the first pictures of a new anti-gang operation in Haiti, run by U.S. security tycoon Eric
00:07Prince.
00:08Bringing new capabilities like helicopters and drones with foreign ex-special forces, but not for free.
00:15Haiti's government hired these private security fighters to tackle gangs that control 90% of the capital.
00:22And these drone pictures show the gangs fleeing.
00:25Eric Prince made his name and millions in Iraq with black water.
00:30Sullied and reprimanded over civilian casualties there.
00:33Now he is selling a new idea that private security, mercenaries to their detractors, can tackle security or gang problems
00:41for failing states that can't.
00:42When we started a police truck like the one we rode in here on, pretty much one of those was
00:48lost every week.
00:50Attacked, ambushed, burned, the occupants slaughtered.
00:54That's done now because there's much better response, quicker air support, drones, whatever, that prevents the police from being overmatched.
01:02That's really why we're here.
01:03Over 2,000 drone strikes in the past year.
01:06Prince wouldn't reveal his annual fee of likely tens of millions of dollars.
01:10He had aimed to free up key roads within a year here, but hasn't.
01:15Although the UN said this year has seen the gangs spread in the capital, halted, even reversed.
01:21You haven't killed any major gang leaders yet.
01:23Have there been challenges in some of the operations you're doing?
01:26Is not killing top leaders part of your strategy?
01:29Look, insurgencies are not defeated by taking out just leadership.
01:35I know there's been an obsession of that in the United States, but wars are won by taking significant numbers
01:41of enemy manpower off the battlefield.
01:43We're in the process of doing that and enabling sovereignty to resume.
