Very interesting Time article on the role of private armies in Iraq and elsewhere. The American "civilian contractors" killed and trophied in Fallujah were soliders-for-hire from Blackwater USA, a company that headhunts the deadliest dudes from elite US Armed Forces divisions (like SEALs and Delta Force), offering them huge salaries to work for private contracts. It sounds too cinematic (or video gamey) to be real, but there it is. (Link from pseudomanitou.)
It's kinda creepy but there are a number of folks like this out there. There are also lots of little private spy and espionage organizations too. It's folks like these who arrange security for people like Bill Gates when he has to travel out of the country.
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Date: 2004-04-05 10:20 am (UTC)