Applicants flood in for bodyguards jobs in Iraq

[G_j]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2872699a11,00.html

Applicants flood in for bodyguards jobs in Iraq
12 April 2004

The head of a Hamilton security firm today said he continued to be inundated by applicants for possible jobs in Iraq, despite the upsurge in violence there.

Red Key Security is negotiating for contracts in Iraq and advertised for staff in North Island newspapers over the past two months.

Managing director Terry Phelan said there had been more than 600 replies for jobs that have a going pay rate of $600-plus a day.

Over the last 24 hours alone, since media publicity about his plans, he had received 60 e-mails.

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[KissMyAsscroft]

1. Good...

Great way to get rid of some real assholes from the local bars...

[alcuno]

5. Send all the ones who want to go and return the ones who don't want

to be there. I read a story about an Army Ranger the other day. He had been badly wounded in Iraq and wanted to return. Send him.

[0007]

12. By all means let that Army Ranger go & get after 'em and all the other

clowns that are into this Goddmann killing and hatred thing.

[FloridaPat]

2. Seems these clowns are enemy non-combatants. They aren't

military and mercenaries can't work for the country they hold the passport to. Just more quasy illegal crap from Bushco.

[not systems]

6. I wondered the same thing...

1) Foreign fighters. Check.
2) Not under state control. Check.
3) Not resistance fighters. Check.

They appear to meet the definition for being
stripped of all Geneva convention right ala Guantanamo.

If the Bush doctrine of international lawlessness holds.

[G_j]

11. thats exactly what they are

but of course it's our game 'we' make or break the rules as 'we' wish.

[PartyPooper]

3. All of the folks who voted for and supported this "war" should apply!

Maybe they can appreciate first-hand what a mess Junior and his pals have created.

[ConcernedCanuk]

4. lost a tender to supply bodyguards for the Coalition Provisional Authority

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"He said it lost a tender to supply bodyguards for the Coalition Provisional Authority, but was looking at other options."
:wtf:
Can't the US army do that?

SHOULDN'T the US be doing that?

It's insane over there!

Well, actually,

The insanity is running the WH.

(sigh)

[G_j]

10. It is utterly insane

we know there are thousands of mercenaries there, but thats about it.

[TeeYiYi]

7. Dying to get in . . .

"These private goon squads, noted the LA Times, operate in secrecy and "outside the control of the U.S. military or any Iraqi authority ... Their clients, activities and even the names of their employees are largely kept from public view." The deaths of these secret warriors, needless to say, are almost never reported.

It is impossible to say how many paid mercenaries have been killed in Iraq, but it is safe to say that what happened to the Fallujah foursome was notable only for the manner in which the corpses were treated. It was certainly not the first time, and it won't be the last time, that 'civilian' contractors are 'murdered' in Iraq.

The Virginian-Pilot reported that "About 30 contractors have been killed in Iraq since fighting began a year ago." The LA Times held that "dozens of the heavily armed security workers have been killed since entering Iraq ... last April." A security expert was quoted as saying: "How many private security guys have been killed here? A lot. At least 50, maybe more; there's been six just this week." And CNN has reported that Halliburton subsidiary Brown & Root alone "has lost seven employees in Iraq."

It is hard to see then how the deaths of the four commandos in Fallujah would have been a particularly significant event had it not been turned into one by the media, which certainly had the option of downplaying or even ignoring the story, as has been done so frequently in the past."

http://www.davesweb.cnchost.com/nwsltr58.html#goff

TYY

[Solly Mack]

8. There has always been and will always be money to be made in the

destruction and rebuilding of a country.

People, throughout time, have done some really stupid things for a buck. Desperation and greed make for really tragic motives and consequences.

Do people ever learn from history? Do they really? I no longer think so...

I'm beyond disgusted by the whole thing....

[Sabriel]

9. Call for nominations

Hey, I have a list of people I'd like to nominate for those jobs. Where do I send it? The sooner, the better.