Mercs Murkinesses

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November 29, 2005 -- British mercenary firm with Pentagon contracts exposed in
civilian shooting incident in Iraq. A souvenir video has surfaced on the Internet
showing private security contractors working for Aegis Defense Services "Victory"
Group firing indiscriminately at Iraqi civilian motorists in Baghdad. The video was
reportedly taken by an Aegis employee and posted on a web site run by an ex-Aegis
employee. The video has since been removed from the site. The video contains four
clips showing Aegis mercenaries firing at civilian automobiles. The video's
soundtrack includes Elvis Presley's "Train I Ride." Aegis is run by former British
Scots Guard officer Lt. Col. Tim Spicer, an international mercenary who has been
involved in UN sanctions busting in Sierra Leone and Bougainville invasion planning
in Papua New Guinea. Spicer's firm, Aegis, was awarded a $293 million security
contract in Iraq. Spicer's men also stand accused of shooting teenager Peter McBride
in the back in Belfast in 1992. That has prompted a number of members of the Irish
Caucus in the Congress to demand the Pentagon withdraw its contract to Aegis. The
Pentagon has rejected such action.


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Pentagon Iraq contractor head Tim Spicer under arrest in 1997 in Papua New Guinea
following failed Bougainville invasion and resulting coup d'etat.

Aegis maintains its head office in London's Picadilly. It is also reported to have
an office on K Street in Washington, DC.

The Pentagon has had a longstanding relationship with Spicer. The Pentagon's love
affair with mercenary firms began in the 1990s when they were viewed with favor for
their military activities, including sanctions busting, in Africa. Under the Clinton
administration, mercenary firms blossomed. Under George W. Bush, they have
flourished. On June 24, 1997, the Defense Intelligence Agency sponsored a seminar
titled "The Privatization of National Security Functions in Sub-Saharan Africa."
This conference ushered in the present cooperation between mercenaries, oil
companies, diamond and other mineral companies, U.S. intelligence agencies, the
military, and non-government organizations (NGOs), including the always suspect
Human Rights Watch, an NGO that often obscures and obfuscates important facts, as it
did with the causality of the Rwandan genocide and as it is currently doing with
regard to offering an incomplete list of CIA prisoner aircraft in Europe.

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WMR has obtained the attendee list [Page One Page Two] for the 1997 Pentagon
mercenary seminar. Spicer attended along with two colleagues from Sandline
International (for which Spicer served as CEO), a mercenary firm that had already
been implicated in illegal Sierra Leone and Papua New Guinea operations.

Mercenary firms, which in neo-con "Newspeak" are referred to as "Private Military
Contractors," "Private Security Contractors (PSCs), and Personal Security
Details/Detachments (PSDs), are viewed by informed observers as the future military
forces that will continue to protect US business interests in Iraq after the planned
withdrawal of a large number of U.S. troops next year. These companies are not
governed by any military regulations or international legal constraints. According
to informed sources within the security contractor community, three U.S. firms,
Phoenix, Anteon, and Sytex, should be looked at closely by U.S. authorities for
their interrogation operations in Iraq. Sytex is currently advertising for
interrogators for the US Central Command's Area of Responsibility (AOR), which
includes Iraq and Afghanistan. Military interrogators who were charged with sexually
humiliating prisoners at Guantanamo and Iraq are now working for firms like Anteon
and Phoenix Consulting Group.