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John Young
jya at pipeline.com
Wed Mar 20 14:40:06 PST 1996
3-20-96. TWP (privatizing the global NatSec frankenstein):
"South Africa Weighs Reining In Peddlers of Mercenary
Ex-Soldiers."
In this once highly militarized society, the transition
from white-minority rule produced unemployed commandos
and spies suddenly without a cause. So, controversial
military and intelligence units are selling their skills
to the rest of Africa and beyond. Executive Outcomes,
the best known and apparently largest of firms offering
overt and covert security services, says the company's
services are in great demand. It operates within a murky
network of other international companies that specialize
in oil drilling, diamond mining and landmine removal.
The firm also has been reported to hire former commandos
of Britain's SAS and the Selous Scouts of the old
white-ruled Rhodesia, as well as military technicians
from the former Soviet Union.
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