Mercenary killed in Iraq was apartheid assassin

[w4rma]

by Julian Rademeyer, Sunday Times (Johannesburg, South Africa)
April 18, 2004

A security contractor killed in Iraq last week was once one of South Africa's most secret covert agents, his identity guarded so closely that even the Truth and Reconciliation Commission did not discover the extent of his involvement in apartheid's silent wars.

Gray Branfield, 55, admitted to being part of a death squad which gunned down Joe Gqabi, the ANC's chief representative and Umkhonto weSizwe operational head in Zimbabwe on July 31 1981. Gqabi was shot 19 times when three assassins ambushed him as he reversed down the driveway of his Harare home.

Author Peter Stiff this week confirmed information that Branfield was an operative identified in his books, The Silent War, Warfare By Other Means and Cry Zimbabwe as "Major Brian". He said Branfield, a former detective inspector in the Rhodesian police force specializing in covert operations against guerrilla organizations, came to South Africa after Zanu-PF came to power in 1980.

In South Africa he joined the SA Defense Force's secret Project Barnacle, a precursor to the notorious Civil Co-operation Bureau (CCB) death squad.
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[Fenris]

1. Good thing we're hiring the good guys!

[LibertyorDeath]

2. That's very fitting because that's what we have in Iraq IMO

death squads.

Just ask an Iraqi any Iraqi they'll tell you.

We bring them misery and death.

We want their real estate and oil.

We can build bases we can control the entire middle east and all the black gold. We help our friend Israel in the process it's a win win.
Except for the millions of Arabs who's Countries we will invade in the guise of fighting Terra and bringing them freedom.

We have to kill many innocents to achieve this goal Women, Children, Babies, Grandparents. We will incinerate, shoot, dismember, all in the name of Freedom.

Welcome to the future. We will destroy anyone or thing for the resources
we need we bring death.

[Djinn]

3. if he is who they say he is

then the f**ker got what he deserved. I wouldn't say that about ALL the mercenarys there - I think they take their chances however - but a hired killer for the Apartheid South Africans?? If I beleived in it I'd say "rot in hell" but I don't so it's just "one less piece of shit stalking the planet"