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Executive Outcomes
This is an outdated look at Executive Outcomes (which possibly doesn't exist anymore), but goes into some detail regarding their past operations. Not a very detailed expose, more an advertisement.
Parents Hire Ex-Soldiers To Guard Bullied Schoolgirl
This silly little story from England (June 2000), describes the hiring of ex-soldiers from APAL Security Consultants by parents to protect their 15-year old daughter, who has been receiving threats from schoolmates (cached on Google).
Executive Outcomes Sought Share In Mine
This very short Mail and Guardian newspaper article (April 4th, 1997) details Executive Outcomes' actions in "crushing a rebellion" in Papua New Guinea, after being contracted through Sandline International, another military specialist organization, making war for profit. Why should governments make all the money?
Executive Outcomes Involvement In The Great Lakes Area
This is a South African Department of Foreign Affairs press release (January 9th, 1997), issued out of Pretoria, South Africa, detailing the steps begun to curtails activities of groups and organizations such as Executive Outcomes.
About Executive Outcomes: Working Outside South Africa
Here in this "thank god for Executive Outcomes] piece, we find that they have assisted the South African Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), to fighting drug trafficking. Hmmm, how long until the US Drug Czars have private troops assisting the US Drug Enforcement Agency fighting users in the War Against Some Drugs?
The Seychelles Case
This is the story of 'Mad Mike' Hoare's attempted coup of Mahi Island, or Seychelles (November 25th, 1981). A Seychelles customs agent spotted an AK-47 in the luggage of one of the mercs, and then . . .
The Mercenary
Here is a story by William Langley, about Colonel Bob Denard, the first white man "to seize himself a kingdom since the white rajas of Sarawak," as Eric Margolis is quoted saying. Langley reveals how Colonel Bob beat a murder rap stemming from a 'combat' incident. Colonel Bob believes, according to Langley, that "there would be no soldiers-of-fortune, no dogs-of-war, if there were politicians of conviction." Interesting.
LBJ & The Congo
This is a decent history of intervention and terror in the Congo, with a few mentions of the infamous Mad Mike Hoare.
Missionaries, Or Mercenaries?
This Toward Freedom magazine article (August, 1999) by Odhiambo Okite, describes how genuine missionaries, and various church leaders, were outraged and despaired to hear of the arrest of three US citizen/fake-missionaries who were transporting heavy weaponry into the African country of Zimbabwe. Seems a bit odd to read this after the billions of folks killed over religion around the world throughout history. The Evangelical Fellowship of Zimbabwe issued a statement that they were horrified, saying, "the pursuit of violence in the name of any christian cause is a perversion of true Christianity . . ." Gosh, wish that all Christians, one of the most repressive, freedom-stomping, life-taking of philosophies throughout all of history, really felt this way, or acted this way instead of just saying it all the time.
About Dyncorp: The Leadership: Jim McCoy
Visit Dyncorp here, and find out who sits in the big guy's chair at the top, at least as far as the public is concerned. Says here that current 'big guy' McCoy managed to obtain new contracts for Dyncorp with the US State, Commerce, and Treasury departments, as well as with the CIA and NASA. NASA? Is NASA really involved in nefarious activities in the intelligence and military world? Are they contracting private military companies for protection, or for dirty work? Could there really be something to the Torbitt document? Or are they merely hiring a mercenary outfit for guard duties?
NATO Installs A Reign Of Terror In Kosovo
In this Emperors-Clothes.com article (July, 1999), Michel Chossudovsky details the US use of MPRI to turn the KLA into a more professional army of schmeck dealers and traffickers, not to mention killers.
Sandline Soldiers Guilty Of Mutiny, Again
This Sydney Morning Herald article (June 2nd, 2000) the problems and risks associated with hiring mercenaries, even those working for the "professionals," to do your dirty work.
Sandline-like Mercenaries
This an interesting article on a private military venture secretly training in Dubai in 1997.
Veterans Face Tough Job Market Once They Leave The Military
This Wall Street Journal article (September 22nd, 1998) by Carl Quintanilla outlines the difficulties combat and military vets have in finding civilian jobs.
Africa's New Look: Dogs Of War
This is a very interesting article by Khareen Peck, and David Beresford, (January 24th, 1997) about the influence of the private professional army Executive Outcomes. Although banned, according to other more recent reports, in January 1999, this is a very good layout of some of their operations in Africa. Reveals how their payment plans help install them into a position of power in other corporations, by ceding them deeds and shares in oil, diamonds, cooper, and other natural resources.
Executive Outcomes Background Report
This is a breakdown of Executive Outcomes and what it had gotten itself involved in, who it worked with, and for.
The Men Who Would Be King Club
Learn about mercenaries, what they do, how they do it, and why. This is a great site for anyone who wants an entertaining, educational read on the subject of soldiers-for-hire.
Eric Margolis: The Dogs of War
Want an adventure story that can be read in less than five minutes? This article by Eric Margolis (October 10th, 1995), details some of legendary mercenary Colonel Bob Denard's last missions. Great story, even if there is a lot of 'Black Tyrant' (gee, if Africa?), and 'White hero' stuff. I am amazed that Margolis here writes that Denard landed in the Comoros Islands in September 1995 to overthrow the teenage madman Ali Selah, without once mentioning that it was Denard who put the "madman" in power in the first place.
Cat's Out Of The Bag: CIA Aided KLA In 1998
This is a rant, plus an article from the New York Times (March 12th, 2000), in which the private military companies Dyncorp. and Military Professional Resources, Inc. are exposed as CIA-fronts, which worked to train the KLA long before the NATO bombing campaign began. The US Government knew the KLA was a drug-financed army, made up mainly of terrorists, gangsters and murderous thugs, yet still chose to back them, undermining the attempts at peace between Kosovar Albanians, and Serbs. These private military companies went in when the official government militaries were not allowed. One KLA backer described sending sniper rifles to the KLA using a loophole in US law that allows the export of sniper rifles to hunting clubs. Hmmm. Dyncorp and MPRI went in and trained these drug-dealing killers to be better equipped, more able killers.
Privatization Of War
This is a great collection of articles on private military contracts to companies such as Dyncorp and MPRI. These US companies are being used more and more nowadays, winning lucrative contracts to train foreign armies to use the killing equipment that international arms dealing corporations sell them.
Humanitarian Spies
This is a breakdown from Emporers-Clothes.com of the use of private military companies such as Dyncorp and MPRI by the US government in the Balkans.
Drugs, Impunity, And The CIA
This is a fascinating transcript of a seminar held by the Center for International Policy's Intelligence Reform Project (November 26th, 1996), featuring Alfred McCoy, Jack Blum and Jonathan Kwitny. Whilst not saying much about private contractors of the like of Sandline, Dyncorp, there is still an impressive list here of assets and mercs hired by the CIA to do its gruntwork throughout the last 50-odd years. These contractors have turned out to be the worst kinds of drug-trafficking, mafia-belonging, democracy-hating types imaginable. So how can we expect the 'legitimate' corporate versions to be any better behaved?
MPRI: Taking Expertise Around The World
I rate this site the highest as it is just so disturbing, and incredible: "The world's greatest military expertise - capitalizing on the expertise and skills of America's best seasoned professionals. Integrity, ethics, professionalism, quality, and cost competitiveness are our hallmarks, a claim borne out by past performance," this site's opening page states, under a crudely drawn dagger (or sword, or whatever the heck that thing is). Be sure to check out their employment opportunities.
Sandline International
This is the official site of Sandline International, "a Private Military Company (PMC) focusing on conflict resolution." Hmmm, I guess that means they go in and forcefully stop the conflicts wherever they go?
Behind The Sandline Mercenary Affair
This World Socialists Web Site article (April 28th, 1997) by Peter Symonds details the operation undertaken by Sandline in Papau New Guinea, to crush the rebellion in Bougainville. The PNG government signed a US$46 million dollar contract with Sandline, and with Executive Outcomes, to repossess the Panguna copper mine.
Soldiers Of Fortune Ltd
This Center for Defense Information profile (November, 1997) of Private Sector Corporate Mercenary Firms by David Isenberg, is exactly what it says it is: a study of the rise of legal, and quasi-legal corporate mercenary outfits that are rapidly becoming the 'new' way of waging war.
Soldiers Of Misfortune
This report from CNN's Cold War television series (1998) is an easy to read article on growing use of mercenaries. Details some of their history, including the use by the CIA and South Africa of soldiers of fortune in Angola.
Soldiers Without Borders: Crisis In Africa
This is a long and exhaustive look at the situation involving soldiers for hire, and corporate military use in Africa by the US House of Representatives (105th Congress, 1998).
Soldier Of Fortune Magazine
This is the perennial mercenary magazine (founded in 1975) for all those grown up little boys out there who would like to be 'guns for hire,' but would rather read about it. They would rather drool over the neato pictures of guns and knives and babes, than actually go out and do the soldier's 'tour of duty.'
The US Defense Intelligence Agency
This is the official Web site of the US Defense Intelligence Agency, dedicated to supplying up to the date military intelligence to the war-fighters. Has anyone else ever heard that the term 'military intelligence' is an oxymoron?
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