Man going to Iraq in search of four missing South African mercenaries

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http://www.sabcnews.com/south_africa/general/0,2172,157816,00.html

October 20, 2007, 18:15

There's still no sign of four South African men who vanished in Iraq 10 months ago. Now, a South African man, Daniel Brink, is preparing to go to Baghdad to see if he can find answers for their families.

The past ten months have been hell for four South African families. Andre Durant, Callie Scheepers, Johann Enslin and Hardus Greeff were captured at a Baghdad roadblock in December last year. The Baghdad four were working as security contractors.

Brink is lucky to be alive today as he was almost killed in a roadside bomb in 2005 in Iraq. Despite the risk he is now returning to help find the men.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

1. well they were not paying them $7500 a month for their personality!

Hostages are something of a currency in Iraq, wealthy Saudi's and others will buy hostages from those who captured them so they can kill them an infidel in a safe private place.

Something of a variation on the "game reserves" where they will chain an animal to a post so you can easily shoot it.