Flashback-Who is working in Iraq?

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this whole new chapter in the Black water story reminded of this article that got pretty much close to 0 coverage, anyhow i though some of you might find it interesting.

Hired Guns with War Crimes Past
By Louis Nevaer, Pacific News Service
Posted on May 4, 2004, Printed on September 17, 2007
http://www.alternet.org/story/18588/


When a suicide bomber parked a van disguised as an ambulance in front of the Shaheen Hotel in the Karadah neighborhood of Baghdad on Jan. 28 and blew himself up, he killed four people and wounded scores of others.

He also blew the lid off a dirty little secret of the Coalition Provisional Authority: Due to its "outsourcing" of privatized security services, the CPA has put terrorists, mercenaries and war criminals on the payrolls of companies contracted by the Pentagon.

After the Shaheen Hotel blast, departmental spokesman Ronnie Mamoepa at South Africa's Foreign Ministry confirmed that one of the Westerners killed was South African Frans Strydom. Four of the wounded were also South African nationals, including Deon Gouws, who sustained serious injuries.

News that Strydom and Gouws were in Iraq sent shockwaves throughout South Africa: In front of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, both men were granted amnesty after confessing to killing blacks and terrorizing anti-apartheid activists, acts that can only be called crimes against humanity.

more at link
http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/18588

and the link for the actual company that is still doing business in Iraq

http://www.erinysinternational.com/default.asp

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1. kick, i should have retitled to include the word "Boobies"