UN Probes Chile's Iraq Mercenaries

[dipsydoodle]

Santiago de Chile, Jul 10 (Prensa Latina) The repeated denunciation by Socialist Party Sen. Alejandro Navarro that 7 companies operate in Chile to recruit ex soldiers to serve as mercenaries in the US war in Iraq has now the support of UN experts.
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The senator said this week that "they must put an end to that illegal industry of labor deception, because if not, they will be allowing many former Chilean soldiers to go to Iraq to play the role of cannon fodder in an unfair and dishonourable war."
http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID={1EEA5ECB-3B90-4FA5-8220-EE65FBD5C6C6}&language=EN

Cannon fodder sums it quite well.

There's more narrative here in the longer version Google translated into English direct from the main news site :
Experts of the UN investigate Chilean mercenarios in Iraq
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=http://www.prensalatina.com.mx/&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=1&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dprensa%2Blatina%26hl%3Den%26rls%3Dcom.microsoft:en-US

It's worth comparing the two to help compensate for bits lost in translation.


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[seemslikeadream]

1. but they do laundry and serve food

nothing wrong with PMCs, many good people work for them. :sarcasm: