Martial Law: It's already here and Repubs in DoD are spying on DUers

[EVDebs]

Yes DUers, dissent during 'wartime' and any criticism of our wartime president will result in your being labelled a traitor and/or a full body cavity search. Already Total Information Awareness has been 'offshored' and morphed into the CAPPS II project in the Bahamas with Ben Bell and company.

This happened in the past but current media inattention to what happened to MLK and teachers not mentioning the MI (military intell, Army Security Agency) component are contributing to current conditions of de facto martial law. Please read

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=1521640&mesg_id=1521640

Also check out this story about precursor to martial law in the 1970s (remember the Huston Plan ?) this is how they're playing it up in the media now as a good thing
http://www.comcast.net/News/GENERAL//XML/1155_Other_U_S__Government/60d6aec7-d31a-4df6-8967-4aad6b39e4fd.html

[napi21]

1. They better get more memory for their system!

I really don't care if they know I don't like or agree with the current Pres. I say they better get more memory because there are a lot of disagreeable people out here, and the number is growing! Guess they better hire a lot more people too. What are they going to do with over 50 million???

[EVDebs]

3. Dr King didn't fear them either but....look what happened to him

and he was in the forefront. The current crop of Repubs feel entitled to call you a traitor if you dissent; the current crop of Repubs embedded in the DoD's new domestic military intelligence agencies are NOT distinguishing between legitimate difference of opinion dissenters and actual lawbreaking dissenters. You've been tried by accusation/membership in 'suspicious' activity simply by being labelled by a cardcarrying neocon, whoever that may be.

[dreamcollector]

4. Hey you're right -- you're in the majority

So relax. Besides the American army won't turn against the American people. Don't forget they didn't get their body army and stuff. I don't know about the private army that works for the corporations tho.

[EVDebs]

8. Uh, remember Tienanmen Sq ? Remember the 1932 Bonus March ?

Read up about USMC Gen Smedley D. Butler. The army turned on a twotime CMOH winner; they will easily come after civvies.

[Flammable Materials]

5. The Germans gassed 6 million Jews ...

... and they were only the size of Texas.

[dreamcollector]

2. Rumor has it that there are prison camps built in the U.S.

for you to live in if you are traitors to George Bush. Is it true or conspiracy theory? If it's true why don't yu'all come right on up to Canada? You can hide out in my little log cabin here in the middle of the haunted forest. It's gorgeous here today. Bright sunlight on the pristine snow on my pond. Blue skies. A great fire in the woodstove. Tra la! Send your kids if they get drafted. They can build their own log shelters somewhere on my 300 acres. And I will hide 'em for you. So will my friends. Think about it. Remember the old underground railroad can be started up again any old time you need Canada.

[EVDebs]

6. Let's hope Rummy's new commando squads don't have DUer

files access so they know who you are and decide to harass you, without Congressional oversight or legal accountability. Not that Republicans in the military intel / ops haven't done this before in the '60s and '70s.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1176359

They had to change the ASA Army Security Agency's name because of the publicity.

[President Kerry]

7. always nice to have a friend next door eh?

:toast:

[napi21]

9. Thanks for the offer, but I don't hide!

I would like to live in Canada, but somehow, I doubt the Canadian Gov't wants all of us. No, I've been a bitch all my life, and I don't intend to stop now.

Just keep your eyes and ears open, and if this BS does come to pass, help us out! Get the word out.

I still think the dissenters far outnumber the neocons, and there's a lot of strength in numbers!

[JohnOneillsMemory]

10. CIA whistleblower John Stockwell warned of all this plus camps in 1987.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4068.htm

John Stockwell, former CIA Station Chief in Angola in 1976, working for then Director of the CIA, George Bush. He spent 13 years in the agency. He gives a short history of CIA covert operations. He is a very compelling speaker and the highest level CIA officer to testify to the Congress about his actions. He estimates that over 6 million people have died in CIA covert actions, and this was in the late 1980's.


>snip<

They're building detention centers. There were 8 kept as mothballs under the McLaren act after World War II, to detain aliens and dissidents in the next war, as was done in the next war, as was done with the Japanese people during World War II. They're building 10 more, and army camps, and the... executive memos about these things say it's for aliens and dissidents in the next national emergency....

FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, headed by Loius Guiffrida, a friend of Ed Meese's.... He's going about the country lobbying and demanding that he be given authority, in the times of national emergency, to declare martial law, and establish a curfew, and gun down people who violate the curfew... in the United States.

And then there's Ed Meese, as I said. The highest law enforcement officer in the land, President Reagan's closest friend, going around telling us that the constitution never did guarantee freedom of speech and press, and due process of the law, and assembly.

What they are planning for this society, and this is why they're determined to take us into a war if we'll permit it... is the Reagan revolution.... So he's getting himself some laws so when he puts in
the troops in Nicaragua, he can take charge of the American people, and put people in jail, and kick in their doors, and kill them if they don't like what he's doing....”

>snip<

more if you can bear it...

[EVDebs]

16. I thought the FEMA deal originated with Ollie North ...

what is it about martial law that these guys are so fascinated with ? Control phreaks.

[ashmanonar]

22. my god...

this is insane...this guy seems for real, too.

how can we get this out? get this in the public eye?

[JohnOneillsMemory]

25. Keep the evidence up on DU 24/7 for the mainstream media trollers. n/t

[leanin_green]

15. might take you up on that dreamcollector.

Especially if they begin to implement Marshall Law. Directions?

[Name removed]

24. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[jimshoes]

27. I love Canada

and I love visiting there. I just might take you up on your offer someday soon.

[zann725]

40. Sounds good to me! Whereabouts?

What does an acre cost around there? I keep thinking of all those in Germany in the late 30's that simply waited too long to leave.

The waiting list for Citizenship is supposedly 1-1/2 years long, right? Hate to get settled in, and be forced to leave because I was not a citizen. (It's going to be a LONG time before this country is liveable again.) Besides, don't they always say: "Love it or leave it!"

Tell us more!

[0007]

11. Open letter to George W. Bush

You're a Son of a Bitch You're a Bastard. You're a jerk. You're a traitor and dictator.

Also a retard and an embarrassment. Your a drunken, drug addled punk. You're a sissy,
mamma's boy, and you're dumber than your daddy. You're a wimp like him too. Your mommy
must be a real Bitch to have raised up a bunch of leeches and parasites like she did. She's more of
a man than you or your dad together, and that's not a compliment!

You're a liar of the worst kind, and you're a two face liar. You are not a godly man at all, but a
hypocrite of rare distinction. you will go down in history as a failed moron like your dad, only
worse.
You've never read a real book in your life. You were an “F” student who got a “C” from your
daddy's contributions to Yale. You're a draft dodger and a deserter. You're a blowhard Prick, and
you can't understand reporter's questions. You've never had a real job, and wouldn't make it past
one month if you did have one. You'd be fired as an incompetent. You've had everything handed
to you, and you don't even appreciate what you've got. You're a snob, and an inbred effete flop.
Plus you have a stupid face. You look like an ape, and when you talk, you talk like an ape. you
don't have any real ideas in your head, and you have no knowledge of the world other than what
your told by your babysitters that your dad hired to surround you. You'd lose a debate with a 12
year old. You're vile and insipid, mundane and dim-witted. You're the dullest knife in the bush
drawer.

When god was handing out brains you thought he said trains and stood there waiting. You are
against a woman's right to choose, but you had one of your staffers pay for your girlfriends
abortion. You snorted up half of Peru and you smuggled drugs by the ton. You drank a river of
Jack Daniels and you lied about being sober.

You stole the presidency with your father's help and you skated through your whole life on your
last name. You knew 9-11 was coming and you went to hide on the pig farm to be prepared for it,
and didn't warn the victims. You let them die by the thousands and then stood there at ground
zero playing the hero. You promised you'd get the perpetrates dead or alive and then you utterly
abandoned the hunt. You are a Whore of the sleaziest kind, and you worship manna, not Jesus.
You defile the name of Christ, and you pretend to be a religious man. You know Jesus, wouldn’t'
bomb babies, but you tell the easily fooled born again that lie. You talk bad about Hitler, but it
was Hitler and your grandpa Prescott that made your family billionaires.

You took money from the bin Ladens to help your oil company and then you couldn't find oil in
Texas. You stole money from retirees and laughed all the way to the bank. You hugged the
widows of soldiers and 9-11 victim's families knowing that you could have saved them. You are a
heartless, cold, reptilian Cocksucker. You have no soul, yet you attend church and carry a bible
around. You stink, you Suck, and you make us all sick.

You will be remembered as the worst president the nation ever suffered through, and your name
will be synonymous with failure and greed and ineptitude. You have invited the world's ire, and
hatred have disgraced all the founding fathers and every citizen who ever gave their life for
democracy and liberty.

You're a confederate Asshole and a racist. You can barely hide your fear and loathing of black
people. You Pissed on the bill of rights and you Shit on the constitution. Your name will be
scraped off monuments and your statues will be toppled and broken up into gravel. You've
brought down hellfire on innocent people without so much as an apology. You now prepare to
bring suffering and agony to millions all for your billionaire, war pig pals. There is oil in your
veins instead of blood. I hope your happy George. You’re a real Son of a Bitch. Fuck you. Fuck
your dad, and Fuck your mom. Fuck your Nazi grandpa and your effeminate giddy father the CIA
monster. Fuck your brother Jeb, and Fuck your ugly wife. Fuck your whole family you have
Fucked America and now America is saying Fuck you George. Kiss my bitter patriotic Ass you
Son of a Bitch.

[SharonRB]

13. Tell us how you REALLY feel!

[0007]

20. I admitt I held back, next time I'll let it all out for Agent Mike.

[Hollowkatt]

17. Wow, thats bitter

On the other hand, you sir, have won teh intraweb :rolleyes:

[Us vs Them]

18. Nice, but, uh... you forgot that he cheated, too. n/t

[AntiCoup2K4]

19. God damn, that was beautiful

And if Agent Mike is taking notes, I agree with every fucking word of it. When can I expect an escort to the train?

[Duncan Grant]

26. For serious ranters only.

"Your name will be scraped off monuments and your statues will be toppled and broken up into gravel." -0007

I thought I could deliver a rant but I'm minor league. You've given me something to aspire to! :thumbsup:
And a great "Ozymandias" reference! Standing ovation. :toast:

[jdots]

31. I will sign your letter too

don't be cowards,they are the cowards

[TankLV]

33. Beautifully said. I couldn't agree more.

I wish I had a large sign of this printed up to put on my car or someplace prominent for all to read.

Love it.

See you in the camps!

[Cats Against Frist]

34. You forgot FUCK YOUR JACK-BOOTED SUPPORTER MORANS

It's those delusional fuckers that keep him in power.

But truly, that was beautiful, and yeah -- I thought I could deliver a rant, too, until I read that.

[Rincewind]

38. 0007

Calm, reasoned letter. I must say, you have a much higher opinion of * than I do.

[Skittles]

43. I just adore you 0007

yes INDEED :thumbsup:

[DBoon]

12. Hello Agent Mike!

How are you doing today?

I just wanted to tell you that Bush's adventure in Iraq is insane and immoral. The sooner we are out of there the better.

[leanin_green]

14. They're making their lists. . .

As was said in Spartacus, "Already the list of those disloyal to the new order is being compiled, the prisons have begun to fill."

[kcass1954]

21. Wearing my "NOT ME!" bracelet

so I'll be easy to spot!

[troubleinwinter]

23. I'm wearing my "NOT ME" bracelet, too!

[LiberalFighter]

28. I support bombing the Bahamas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[seemslikeadream]

29. Ultra-secret troops poised at inaugural - code named Power Geyser

Ultra-secret troops poised at inaugural

...

These commandos, operating under a secret counterterrorism program code-named Power Geyser, were mentioned publicly for the first time last week on a Web site for a new book, "Code Names: Deciphering U.S. Military Plans, Programs and Operation in the 9/11 World," by William Arkin, a former Army intelligence analyst.

...

The special-missions units belong to the Joint Special Operations Command, a highly secretive command based at Fort Bragg, N.C., whose elements include the Army's Delta Force. In the past, the command has also provided support to domestic law-enforcement agencies during high-risk events like the Olympics and political party conventions, according to the Web site of GlobalSecurity.org, a research organization in Alexandria, Va.

The role of the armed forces in the United States has been a contentious issue for more than a century. The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, which restricts military forces from performing domestic law enforcement duties, like policing, was enacted after the Civil War in response to the perceived misuse of federal troops who were charged with policing in the South.

Over the years, the law has been amended to allow the military to lend equipment to federal, state and local authorities, assist federal agencies in drug-interdiction work, protect national parks and execute quarantine and certain health laws. About 5,000 federal troops supported civilian agencies at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City three years ago.

...

The commandos in Washington last week were the same type of special-ops forces that are hunting top insurgents in Iraq and Osama bin Laden in the wilds of the Afghan-Pakistan border. But under the top-secret military plan, they are also conducting counter-terrorism missions in support of civilian agencies on U.S. soil.
more
http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/5200163.html

"The Gestapo was established on April 26, 1933 in Prussia. With members recruited from professional police departments, its role as a political police force was quickly established by Hermann Göring after Adolf Hitler gained power in March 1933. Rudolf Diels was the first head of the organization, initially called "Department 1A of the Prussian State Police".

The role of the Gestapo was to investigate and combat "all tendencies dangerous to the State." It had the authority to investigate treason, espionage and sabotage cases, and cases of criminal attacks on the Nazi Party and on Germany.

The law had been changed in such a way that the Gestapo's actions were not subject to judicial review. The Nazi jurist, Dr. Werner Best, stated, "As long as the ... carries out the will of the leadership, it is acting legally." The Gestapo was specifically exempted from being responsible to administrative courts, where citizens normally could sue the state to conform to laws.

The power of the Gestapo most open to misuse was Schutzhaft, or "protective custody" — a euphemism for the power to imprison people without judicial proceedings, typically in concentration camps. The person imprisoned even had to sign his or her own Schutzhaftbefehl, the document declaring that the person desired to be imprisoned. Normally this signature was forced by beatings and torture."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestapo


Spicer's group is supposed to coordinate them all?

Rumsfeld to review the Spicer deal.

Major Gary Tallman, a spokesperson for the U.S. Army, explained
that the contract was to create an "integrator" or coordination
hub for the security operation for every single reconstruction
contractor and sub-contractor.
"Their job is to disseminate information and provide guidance and
coordination.... http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11350


http://www.sourcewatch.org/wiki.phtml?title=Tim_Spicer

Thanks sattahipdeep


Code Names: Deciphering U.S. Military Plans, Programs and Operations in the 9/11 World

Introduction: Will explain to the American public, for the first time, just what the explosion in the creation of secret code names after 9/11 reveals about overall strategies in the war on terror.

Cast of Characters: A brief description of all relevant federal departments, agencies, commands, and organizations. For each there is a discussion of their missions, roles, and activities, their contingency plans and their secret bases of operations. The emphasis is on what is not readily known to the public.
http://www.codenames.org/

[EVDebs]

30. Strategic Support Branch is the DoD/Rumsfeld usurping CIA's intell

"Secret Unit Expands Rumsfeld's Domain--New Espionage Branch Delving Into CIA Territory" by Barton Gellman
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29414-2005Jan22.html

""Pentagon officials emphasized their intention to remain accountable to Congress, but they also asserted that defense intelligence missions are subject to fewer legal constraints than Rumsfeld's predecessors believed. That assertion involves new interpretations of Title 10 of the U.S. Code, which governs the armed services, and Title 50, which governs, among other things, foreign intelligence.

Under Title 10, for example, the Defense Department must report to Congress all "deployment orders," or formal instructions from the Joint Chiefs of Staff to position U.S. forces for combat. But guidelines issued this month by Undersecretary for Intelligence Stephen A. Cambone state that special operations forces may "conduct clandestine HUMINT operations . . . before publication" of a deployment order, rendering notification unnecessary. Pentagon lawyers also define the "war on terror" as ongoing, indefinite and global in scope. That analysis effectively discards the limitation of the defense secretary's war powers to times and places of imminent combat.

Under Title 50, all departments of the executive branch are obliged to keep Congress "fully and currently informed of all intelligence activities." The law exempts "traditional . . . military activities" and their "routine support." Advisers said Rumsfeld, after requesting a fresh legal review by the Pentagon's general counsel, interprets "traditional" and "routine" more expansively than his predecessors.""

Expect more deception of Congress and less oversight of these operations both foreign and domestic. It also begs the question of what the War Powers Act of 1973 is good for if Rummy can discard those limitations at will. Congress has its hands full with the 'secret army of Northern Virginia' as it it now being called along with the 'commando' units operating domestically. Without oversight for responsibilities and budget, these guys are out of control completely.

[seemslikeadream]

32. Controversial Commando Wins Iraq Contract

Thursday 10th June 2004 :
Controversial Commando Wins Iraq Contract
by Pratap Chatterjee, Special to CorpWatch

Occupation authorities in Iraq have awarded a $293 million contract effectively creating the world's largest private army to a company headed by Lieutenant Colonel Tim Spicer, a former officer with the SAS, an elite regiment of British commandos, who has been investigated for illegally smuggling arms and planning military offensives to support mining, oil, and gas operations around the world. On May 25, the Army Transportation command awarded Spicer's company, Aegis Defense Services, the contract to coordinate all the security for Iraqi reconstruction projects.


In Iraq, there are currently several dozen groups that provide private security to both the military and the private sector, with more than 20,000 employees altogether. The companies include Erinys, a South African business, that has more than 15,000 local employees charged with guarding the oil pipelines; Control Risks Group, a British company that provides security to Bechtel and Halliburton; and North Carolina-based Blackwater Consulting, which provides everything from back-up helicopters to bodyguards for Paul Bremer, the American ambassador in charge of the occupation.


Wanted: A Few Good Men for Very Good Salaries


"Our men can repair anything from a radio to a satellite phone, but the pay here in the UK is just 25,000 pounds ($46,000)," said Browne. "I posted the <A TITLE="Click for more information about job" STYLE="text-decoration: none; border-bottom: medium solid green;" HREF="http://search.targetwords.com/u.search?x=5977 |1||||job|AA1VDw">job</A> to the guys and now it's up to them to go get the jobs."

Tallman says that six companies bid for the coordination contract. According to other CorpWatch sources, three of the bidders were Dyncorp, a Virginia based company that is in charge of training the Iraqi police; Military Professionals Resources Incorporated (MPRI), which was working on training the Iraqi army; and a joint venture between Control Risks Group, Erinys, and Olive Security, three of the largest providers of private security in Iraq.
Industry insiders speculate that Aegis won the contract because of growing anger in Britain that UK-based companies have not been awarded large contracts in the reconstruction of Iraq, despite the leading role that the Tony Blair's government has played in the "coalition of the willing." The only other British bid for the contract, the Control Risks joint venture, was disqualified because one of the partners was under investigation for undisclosed reasons at the time the bids were evaluated.

Because of the politics in the decision, some groups are questioning the contracting process. "It's not evident why they they would run a rent-a-cop contract through an Army transportation division in Virginia except that maybe the staff there are more experienced and can write a professional contract that can withstand a bid protest better than the Heritage foundation interns that run contracting in Baghdad," said John Pike, a spokesman for the military watchdog group Globalsecurity.org. For the first 12 months, all contracts in Iraq were evaluated by a group of six men and women in their 20s who were hired on the basis of job resumes they posted at the right-wing foundation's website.


Questionable Track Record

But not everyone agrees with this assessment of Spicer's work. In Sierra Leone, Spicer's efforts have been heralded by the private military industry as the "work of angels." In 2002, Spicer was approached by Per Christiansen, a Norwegian shipping expert who was director of Hudson Maritime, a 16-year-old company that did emergency response to crises like the Exxon Valdez oil spill. New Jersey-based Hudson had just won a contract from the Department of Homeland Security to review security at ports around the country.

more
http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=1300


By Basildon Peta in Johannesburg and Andrew Buncombe in Washington
11 March 2004


Zimbabwe was threatening to execute up to 60 suspected mercenaries last night - among them a former SAS officer - and accused Britain, Spain and the US of helping to orchestrate an attempted coup in the oil-rich African country of Equatorial Guinea.

Zimbabwe's Foreign Minister, Stan Mudenge, said the men were on their way to Equatorial Guinea where they were plotting to overthrow the government and seize the head of state. "They are going to face the severest punishment available in our statutes, including capital punishment," he said.

Mr Mudenge claimed his information had been provided by Simon Mann, an Old Etonian and a one-time member of the SAS, who, he said, was waiting for the suspected mercenaries when they were arrested in Harare at the weekend. Mr Mann has a long association with the private military business and was a senior figure in Sandline, the mercenary group headed by a former British Army lieutenant-colonel, Tim Spicer.

Zimbabwe, which has frostty relations with much of the Western world, said the plot had been elaborate. "Apparently, this was not one mission ... after the diversion in Equatorial Guinea, they were going to the DRC ," said Mr Mudenge.

... more ...

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/story.jsp?story=500019

[EVDebs]

35. Sheeez. Sounds like the ultimate in 'outsourcing'. Private army ?

Is the US DoD the Republican party's 'private army' ?

[seemslikeadream]

36. Private Military Companies - mercenaries

Tim Spicer -convert 40,000 militia into an effective fighting force
August 21, 1997

In April 1995 Sierra Rutile teamed up with a British company named Branch Energy, which is now controlled by Diamond Works, to bring in a South African mercenary outfit called Executive Outcomes to the country with the blessing of Valentine Strasser, the military ruler of Sierra Leone.
Once in country, Executive Outcomes employed traditional Sierra Leonian witchcraft hunters as scouts and brought in two of South Africa's most highly decorated air force pilots. The pilots initially had difficulty distinguishing between the rebels and civilians camped under the impenetrable canopy of vines and trees, but when the Sierra Leone military commander told them to ''kill everybody'' they obeyed orders according to accounts of the operation published in Harper's magazine. About a year later the new Sierra Leonian government terminated the Executive Outcomes contract, under pressure from the International Monetary Fund, and was promptly overthrown in a coup. Reports indicate that a third intervention is now being planned. Last month Tim Spicer of Sandline International met with investors in Vancouver, Canada, to discuss ''strategy, logistics and training'' to ''convert 40,000 militia into an effective fighting force'' in Sierra Leone.
Sandline is controlled by minerals speculators Robert Friedland and Anthony Buckingham, the two principal investors in Diamond Works, a mining company with extensive interests in Sierra Leone, who were also instrumental in the 1995 mercenary interventions. Sandline were also responsible for the botched attempt to retake Bougainville, in the South Pacific, by mercenaries earlier this year.

more
http://www.moles.org/ProjectUnderground/drillbits/970821/97082102.html


a new, unaccountable and potentially destabilising component

Dick Cheney, George W. Bush's running mate, is a far cry from the "aw, shucks" kind of Wyoming cowboy-politician painted by Republican strategists. When he was at the helm of the Dallas-based oil services giant Halliburton, Inc., from 1995 until his nomination, the company and its subsidiaries--Brown & Root and Dresser Industries--were deeply enmeshed in the military-intelligence complex.
<snip>
What's more, Halliburton has been involved with so-called private military companies. Brown & Root has acted in concert with U.S. mercenary companies like AirScan and MPRI (recently acquired by L-3 Communications) from Angola to Croatia.
http://www.progressive.org/wm0900.htm

The growing influence of private corporations in the war business is likely to continue, according US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. In an interview last year he said the Pentagon ‘will pursue additional opportunities to outsource and privatise’ and defence analysts are predicting the loss of a further 200,000 jobs in the US armed forces over the next few years.
The growing privatisation and contracting out of military activities is an ominous development and a serious challenge for the international peace movement. It is a new, unaccountable and potentially destabilising component of the global strategy of the major military states - the United States, the UK, France and Israel - and at its present rate of growth, could soon rival and surpass the size of conventional armed forces, transforming the way in which modern war and foreign policy will be conducted. It is a development that we ignore at our peril.
http://www.banthebomb.org/magazine/nfs0402/private.shtm...

Meanwhile, concentration camps are being built and activated WITHIN the US.
Got civilians?


1980
In "Operation Winter," with the collusion of British government monitors in Rhodesia, Rhodesian special operations assets are reportedly transferred covertly to South Africa. These assets supposedly include the Rhodesian SAS, the CIO and its agents, and the Selous Scouts, as well as black "mercenaries" and "the poisoners and their poisons," all of which are incorporated into the appropriate South African departments. British and American planes may have taken part in the transfer of men and equipment.
—Jeremy Brickhill, "Zimbabwe's Poisoned Legacy: Secret War in Southern Africa," Covert Action Quarterly 43 (Winter 1992-93), pp. 58-60.
http://www.nti.org/e_research/profiles/SAfrica/Chemical/2446.html

Executive Outcomes (EO) head Eeben Barlow recently told a South African reporter that "War and anarchy will reign in Africa because it has been exploited by people making promises. The Cold War left a huge vacuum and I identified a niche in the market. "We are selling the business of surviving."
http://www.moles.org/ProjectUnderground/mil/exec.shtml

Since 1994, the U.S. Defense Department has entered into 3,061 contracts with 12 U.S.-based private military companies, a review of government documents showed. Not every contract was for military services; although records obtained from the Pentagon were not specific enough to determine the purpose of each of the contracts.
But private military companies -- a recently coined euphemism for mercenaries - are just one face of the increasing trend of the privatization of war, the investigation found. A small group of individuals and companies with connections to governments, multinational corporations and, sometimes, criminal syndicates in the United States, Europe, Africa and the Middle East have profited from this business of war.
http://www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/6984

According to Mabasa Sasa:
There really is no difference between Sand Line and Al Qaeda, Executive Outcomes and the Provisional Irish Republican Army, the Pentagon and CIA and the Basque separatist ETA.
This new breed of legalised terrorists are responsible for fanning the flames of war and bloodshed on the continent as they train village militias and turn them into deadly fighting and killing machines. They are after all plainly and simply terrorists.
http://www.africaonline.com


The Dogs of War
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=125&topic_id=9558&mesg_id=9558o.zw/mirror/stage/archive/0403...

[0007]

42. I can always count on you to keep updated. Thanks.

Since 1994, the U.S. Defense Department has entered into 3,061 contracts with 12 U.S.-based private military companies, a review of government documents showed. Not every contract was for military services; although records obtained from the Pentagon were not specific enough to determine the purpose of each of the contracts.

The business of war thrives. In a special report by an international team of reporters, the Center for Public Integrity has profiled the business of modern warfare with its private armies, weapons dealers, private bankers and supporters in the highest reaches of government and the private sector.

National armies -- like the United States military -- are not the only people fighting in today's wars. In fact, the Center for Public Integrity has found at least 90 companies that are providing services normally performed by national military forces -- but without any public oversight -- have operated in 110 countries worldwide in recent years, providing everything from military training, logistics, and even engaging in armed combat.

more.....http://www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/6984

[seemslikeadream]

44. Thanks 0007 - The U.S. government assumes no responsibility

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Security Companies Doing Business in Iraq

The U.S. government assumes no responsibility for the professional ability or integrity of the persons or firms whose names appear on the list.

AD Consultancy

Headquarters:
ADC House
P.O. Box 153
Sutton, Surrey SM3 9WF
United Kingdom
Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Website: www.adconsultancy.com
Email: [e-mail]

Contact in Iraq:
Ian Grealey
Tel: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]

Description of Services:
Risk and threat assessment, close protection teams/bodyguards, asset protection, secure commodity escort, travel and escort security, residential and premises security, aviation security, maritime security, oil and gas industry security, surveillance and counter surveillance.


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AKE Limited

Headquarters:
Mortimer House
Holmer Road
Hereford HR4 9TA
UK
Tel: <44> (0) 1432 267111
Fax: <44> (0) 1432 350227
Email: [e-mail]
Website: www.akegroup.com

Contact in Iraq:
Peter Hornett
Tel: <44> (0) 7739 094598
Email: [e-mail] " target="_blank">[e-mail] " target="_blank">[e-mail]

Description of Services:
Hostile regions training, reduced personal insurance rates, the services of security risk specialists, location security audits, personal security reviews, body armor, medical audits, equipment, assistance and evacuation; political, security, intelligence and cultural briefings, subscription-based online secure database of security, risk and intelligence information, including twice-weekly Iraq security briefings.


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ArmorGroup

Headquarters:
25 Buckingham Gate
London
SW1E 6LD
Tel: <44> (20) 7808-5800
Fax: <44> (20) 7233-7434
Email: [e-mail] or [e-mail]

Contact in Iraq:
John Farr, MBE
Country Manager
Tel: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]

Description of services:
ArmorGroup operates in 40 countries worldwide and is a leading international risk management, security services, mine action, and information service provider. In Iraq we currently have offices in Mosul, Baghdad, and Basra, and on-going operations throughout the country. They provide major corporate and government clients in Iraq with risk assessment and management, close protection, manned guarding, technical security systems, and mine action services (mine clearing and unexploded ordnance disposal). ArmorGroup supports the Joint US/UK Government’s Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights, and subscribes to the Code of Conduct of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. ArmorGroup is a United Nations approved provider, and is ISO 9001:2000 certified. ArmorGroup's Baghdad office is not able to deal with job applications. All applications must be accompanied by a current CV/resume and sent to: [e-mail] (US residents), or [e-mail] (UK residents and other nationalities).



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Control Risks Group

Headquarters:
83 Victoria Street
London SW1H OHW
United Kingdom
Tel: <44> (20) 722 1552
Fax: <44> (20) 7222 2296
Website: www.crg.com
Email: [e-mail] or [e-mail]

Contact in Iraq:
James Blount, Country Manager
Tel: [phone] (NY number but person is located in Iraq)
Thuraya: [phone]
Email: [e-mail] or [e-mail]

Description of Services:
Control risk is a leading international business risk consultancy with 28 years experience of supporting more than 5,300 clients in over 130 countries. They currently have an office in Baghdad providing major governmental and corporate clients with a range of services, including security management, discreet armed protection, and information support.


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Custer Battles

Headquarters:
3959 Pender Drive
Suite 109
Fairfax, VA 22050
Tel: <1> 703-385-1121
Fax: <1> 703-385-2177
Email: [e-mail]
Website: www.custerbattles.com

Contact in Iraq:
Brig. General Charles Baumann, Director
Tel: <1> 914-360-9223
Email: [e-mail]

Description of Services:
Security services, life supports, construction, logistics, transportation, and personal security details.


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Diligence Middle East

Headquarters:
1275 Eye Street, NW
Washington, DC 20005
Tel: <1> 202-659-6210
Fax: <1> 202-659-6210
Email: [e-mail]
Website: www.diligencellc.com

Contact in Iraq:
Ken Josey, Country Manager
Tel: <1> 914-822-9746 (NY number rings in Baghdad)
Email: [e-mail]

Description of Services:
Diligence Middle East is the Middle East subsidiary of Diligence LLC, a global information and security services firm. In Iraq, Diligence provides risk advisory consulting, competitive due diligence, close protection, site security, and security escort services for multiple international clients and CPA contractors.


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Erinys Iraq Limited

Headquarters:
16 Zukak 18
601 Emerat Mahla
Al-Mansour
Baghdad, Iraq
Tel: [phone]
Email: [e-mail] " target="_blank">[e-mail] " target="_blank">[e-mail]
Website: www.erinysinternationa.com

Contact in Iraq:
Michael Hutchings
Tel: [phone] or [phone]
Email: [e-mail]

Description of Services:
Expatriate and Iraqi security services supported by nationwide radio and voice/data satellite communications. Services include managed guard forces, personal protection services, convoy protection, key point, and area security. Company is structured in 3 regions and 12 sectors with expatriate managed offices in each sector.


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Genric

Headquarters:
Hereford House
East Street
Hereford, UK HR1 2LU
Tel: <44> 1432 379083
Fax: <44> 1432 370786
Website: www.genric.co.uk
Email: [e-mail]

Contact in Iraq:
Nick Duggan
Tel: <44> 7919 478484 or <965> 904-8217/8257
Email: [e-mail]

Description of Services:
Genric provides global security solutions to corporations in the form of risk assessments, plans and policies for kidnapping, evacuation, crisis management and general security guidelines, physical provision of armed escort teams for personnel and convoys, security managers, occupational health, Technical Surveillance Counter Measures (TSCM), defensive driving, personal, asset and property protection. Offices in the UK, Slovakia, Serbia and the Philippines. A secure facility has been established outside Basra, which provides: armed site security 24/7, air con accommodation, air con offices, 4x4 armored and non-armored vehicle hire or purchase, service and parts center, generation hire or purchase, communications.



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Global Risk Strategies
Headquarters:
6 Stratton Street
London W1J 8LD
United Kingdom
Tel: <44> (20) 7491 7492
Fax: <44> (20) 7491
Website: www.globalrsl.com
Email: [e-mail] " target="_blank">[e-mail] " target="_blank">[e-mail]

Contact in Iraq:
Damian Perl, Charlie Andrews, Nick Arnold
Tel: [phone] (NY number but person is located in Iraq)
Email: [e-mail]

Description of Services:
Working together with the U.S. government, United Nations, and key commercial clients to provide significant security, logistics and facilitation services in post conflict Iraq. A country wide network of specialist teams, communications and logistics assets have been established, headquarted in Baghdad, to assist with immediate humanitarian aid and reconstruction projects in the Aviation, Oil, Banking and Infrastructure sectors. Further to this, there are now GLOBAL Close Protection Teams working in support of the Ministries of the Coalition Provisional Authority.


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Group 4 Falck A/S
Headquarters:
Panchwati
82-A, Sector 18
Gurgaon 122016 (Haryana)
India
Tel: <91> 124-2398888
Fax: <91> 124-2397131
Website: www.group4falck.com
Email: [e-mail]

Contact in Iraq:
Abrahem Ghazarian
Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]

Description of Services:
Guarding services including static guards, patrol guards, close protection, control room guards, and air marshals (armed and unarmed). Technical and security systems solutions. Physical security and design. Cash services (armed vehicles) with trained crew to transfer cash and valuables. Provide ATM services, wage packaging and distribution. Cashing sorting. Ambulance services (vehicles and professional staff). Firefighting services (vehicles, products and professional staff). Prisons and prison management. Global solutions. Facility management and training services.


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Hill and Associates, Ltd.

Headquarters:
2604-9 Harbour Center
No. 25 Harbour Road
Wanchai, Hong King
Tel: <852> 2802-2123
Fax: <852> 2802-2133
Email: [e-mail]
Website: www.hill-assoc.com

Contact in Iraq:
Richard Hancock, Director
Operations - Middle East
Tel: <971> (4) 211-5447 (Dubai) or (65) 6322-2558
Thuraya: 882-162-1100-133
Email: [e-mail] or [e-mail]

Description of Services:
Hill and Associates are a risk management consultancy company with ten years of experience supporting Fortune 500 companies in Asia Pacific and the Middle East. They currently have offices in Kuwait City, Dubai and Baghdad focused on providing clients in Iraq with a range of services, including: executive protection, information services and security audits.


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ICP Group Ltd

Headquarters:
2 Old Brompton Road
London SW7 3DQ
United Kingdom
Tel: <44> (0) 207-591-4411
Fax: <44> (0) 207-584-1460
Email: [e-mail]
Website: www.icpgroup.ltd.uk

Contact in Iraq:
Will Geddes or Andy King
Tel: <44> [phone] (UK number that rings in Baghdad)
Email: [e-mail]

Description of Services:
ICP Group Ltd is an international threat management company servicing many international organizations including the corporate, industrial, financial, telecoms and pharmaceutical industries. With representation country-wide since Desert Storm (1991), ICP Group Ltd have provided security support and services to many major multi-national companies, NGO and government agencies. Providers of high-quality and competitively-priced protection services, security equipment, logistics management and liaison services, ICP Group Ltd can ensure that you are provided with an effective and efficiently managed security solution for short, mid and long-term engagements. Services include: close protection/bodyguards (static and mobile), secure accommodation, armored vehicles, personal protection equipment, field operations supplies, due diligence, risk assessment, audits and project evaluation/analysis, medical services, hostile environment training, specialist insurance coverage (through Lloyds of London), crisis management, and business continuity services and evacuation support and services. ICP Group Ltd protection employees are only either former British and US Special Forces or Elite Forces personnel.


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ISI

Headquarters:
Baghdad Conference Palace
Mansour, Baghdad
Tel: <1> 914-360-2492
Email: [e-mail] " target="_blank">[e-mail] " target="_blank">[e-mail]

Contact in Iraq:
Omar Hadi
Tel: <1> 914-360-2492 or <1> 914-822-7707
Email: [e-mail] " target="_blank">[e-mail] " target="_blank">[e-mail]

Description of Services:
ISI Iraq is a part of the ISI Group and is the only security company to provide 24 hour Iraqi security guards to the CPA "Green Zone". All guards are trained by the U.S. army, vetted through "local knowledge" and have been a valuable asset to the American troops at the convention center in Baghdad. ISI also provides guards for residences, offices, and also do low key protection work for foreign nationals. All guards provided to foreign nationals have proficient English, and invaluable local knowledge, military or police backgrounds as well as British and American training. ISI has also been involved in due diligence, providing information for foreign and domestic companies through a network of personalities, companies, and families throughout Iraq. ISI's senior management includes experienced military personnel mostly ex-special forces from both the US and UK. ISI provides turnkey accommodation solution for foreign companies and press, in low key locations around Baghdad, providing and vetting all members of staff, 24 hour security as well as other complimentary support. Security services include: manned guarding, close protection work, site surveys, turnkey accommodation, and provision of commercial intelligence and due diligence, translators and drivers. Commercial services include: representation, construction, turn key 'camps', transportation within and in and out of Iraq. ISI has existing joint venture agreements with both US and UK established security firms.


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Meteoric Tactical Solutions


Headquarters:
6 Meteor Road
Valhalla
Pretoria, South Africa
Tel: <27> 12 651 3402
Fax: <27> 12 651 3402
Email: [e-mail]

Contact in Iraq:
Lourens Horn (Louwtjie)
Tel: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]

Description of Services:
Specialized training programs, VIP protection, asset protection, risk management and analysis, even management, asset recovery.


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Meyer & Associates

Headquarters:
P.O. Box 1800
Joshua (DFW), TX 76058
Tel: <11> 817-426-1199
Fax: <11> 817-558-4868
Website: www.meyerglobalforce.com
Email: [e-mail]

Contact in Iraq:
Tim Meyer or Gary DeSmith
Tel: [phone] or 1-817-821-8820
Email: [e-mail] or [e-mail]

Description of Services:
Security consulting and problem resolution, executive protection/bodyguards, advance work, intelligence, transportation and drivers, security guards, threat assessment, kidnap negotiations, investigations, reporting, analysis, liaisons with government, diplomatic, military, local and guerilla leaders. Aggressive security including specialized ex-military personnel utilizing state of the art equipment and tactics. Armed Patrol Vessels.


Olive Security (UK) Limited
Headquarters:
2 Charles Street
Mayfair, London
W1J 5DB
England, UK
Tel: <44> (0) 207307 0540
Fax: <44> (0) 207307 0542
Email: [e-mail]
Website: www.olivesecurity.com

Contact in Iraq:
John Yourston and Douglas Dick
Tel: [phone] or <965> 914-0169 (Kuwait office)

Description of Services:
Armed VIP protection, armed convoy escort, threat and risk analysis, security site survey, key point security, manned guards, technological security including: TSCM, debugging/sweeps, IT security implementation.


Optimal Solution Services
Headquarters:
4/35 Spencer Street
Fairfield NSW
Australia
Tel: <61> (2) 97555840
Fax: <61> (2) 97559835
Email: [e-mail] " target="_blank">[e-mail] " target="_blank">[e-mail]

Contact in Iraq:
Zahir F. Hameed
Tel: [phone]
Email: [e-mail] " target="_blank">[e-mail] " target="_blank">[e-mail]

Description of Services:
The infrastructure is streamlined to ensure maximum efficiency and effectiveness in vigilance and security alert response. Our emphasis is on maintaining the highest industry standards with our security personnel adhering to safety and health regulation and best work practices.


Overseas Security & Strategic Information, Inc/Safenet - Iraq

Headquarters:
Post Office Box 52067
Atlanta, GA 30355
USA
Tel: <1> 404-307-4072
Fax: <1> 413-208-6069
Email: [e-mail]

Contact in Iraq:
John H. Walbridge, Jr. or Mauritz Le Roux
Tel: <964> 7901915494 or <88> 216 5201 4591/4592

Description of Services:
We provide in-country "hands on" management of highly trained and experienced South African security personnel by former American intelligence officers with paramilitary backgrounds. Services include close protection of VIPs, general personal security of employees, convoy escorts of personnel and equipment, training of local security personnel, provision of armored and unarmored vehicles, threat and intelligence reporting, and provision of combat medics with proper equipment. Our approach is responsive, personalized and cost-effective.


RamOPS Risk Management Group

Headquarters:
7312 Suite 8 Hihenge Court
Raleigh, NC 27615
Tel: <1> 919-740-4597
Website: www.ramops.com
Email: [e-mail]

Contact in Iraq:
Andy Potts or John Autenreith
Email: [e-mail]
Tel: <1> 919-740-4597 (US)

Description of Services:
Security consulting that includes threat assessments, recommended precautions, and contingency planning for personnel, sites, and equipment. Site security including area patrols, point security, and barricade design. Executive and VIP protection, convoy escort, 24/7 coverage available throughout Iraq. Communications, information technology, and logistic services available in support of any NGO or commercial operation. Their entire organization is comprised of US special operations and military intelligence professionals. Security consulting and training available in the US for NGO or corporate personnel prior to deployment.


Sumer International Security

Headquarters:
Almasbah - Dis Babilon
Sec. 929, St. 10, Building 10(54/356)
Baghdad, Iraq
Tel: <1> 312-869-7336 (VOIP)
Fax: <1> 202-438-9710
Email: [e-mail]
Website: www.thesandigroup.com

Contact in Iraq:
Janna Lipman
Tel: <1> 312-869-8336 (VOIP) or <964> 7901-916-338 or <1> 202-483-5900
Email: [e-mail] or [e-mail]

Description of Services:
SIS security guards, body guards, and private police armed and uniformed are trained by DynCorp International. Our clients are protected by a 365 days, 24/7 basis and we maintain a 24 hours dispatch operation with field supervision.


Triple Canopy Inc.

Headquarters:
200 W. Adams Street
29th Floor
Chicago, IL 60606
USA
Tel: <1> 312-895-5000 ext. 7070
Fax: <1> 312-895-5001
Email: [e-mail]
Website: www.triplecanopy.com

Contact in Iraq:
Ron Boline or Tony Nichlson
Tel: <1> 914-360-6961 (NY number rings in Baghdad) or <44> 208-792-629 (UK number rings in Baghdad)
Email: [e-mail] or [e-mail] or [e-mail]

Description of Services:
Triple Canopy excels in executive protection, site security, and convoy security. Our operators have an average of more than 20 years in the most elite military Special Operations units and are the highest quality personnel in the industry. Our services range from discreet travel companions to heavily armored, high profile convoy escort. From security assessments to tactical training to direct security work, Triple Canopy has the solution.


Wade-Boyd and Associates LLC

Headquarters:
Suite 116
Main Street
Lawler, IA 52154
Tel: <1> 641-330-4581 or 931-302-7822
Fax: <1> 270-518-5780
Email: [e-mail]

Contact in Iraq:
Malek (Ali) Mehanna or V. Brooke Phillips
Tel: <1> 641-330-4581 (US)
Email: [e-mail] or [e-mail]

Description of Services:
Owned and operated by honorably retired U.S. army military police investigator, who currently is the command investigator lieutenant for the U.S. DOD federal police. And, an honorably retired (twice) U.S. DOD federal police investigator sergeant/chief of police. With over 40 years of combined experience, we provide: professional, experienced, former military/federal law enforcement, armed close protection teams, K-9 dogs for explosive detection and protection, security officers both standing and roving, investigations, under-cover investigations, armed escorts, vehicle and transportation convoy security, armed patrol in vehicle and water craft, air craft protection teams both on land and in the air, translators, armed money/valuables escorts, surveillance, global vehicle tracking, home and business protection both uniformed and plan clothes, armored vehicles, and more.

http://travel.state.gov/iraq_securitycompanies.html

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[jesusq]

39. The repug-thugs could squash us like bugs

What need is there to involve the DoD when Barney Fife and Sheriff Andy can do the job? The vast majority of liberals are unarmed, pacifist wimps who would hurt a tree or a spotted owl let alone another human. Our only hope is that one day, the repugs will kick the crap out us so severely, for no good reason, that liberals and repugs unite in outrage and turn on the administration.

While the TV news crews are capturing images of this beating, we had better hope that Janet Jackson is exposing her breast and Howard Dean is screaming while this atrocity takes place. This is the only way we can be certain that CNN and the network news will not be able to resist playing the video over and over again 7000 times. Perhaps then, the American Sheeple will wake up.

The repugs do not fear an uprising from us. Why would they? If they are actively squashing peaceful dissent, it is because they fear that their own violent retaliation could spark a public relations nightmare like what happened in Selma, Alabama in 1965.

http://www.revolutionleft.org/giveviolenceachance.html

[GarySeven]

41. Has any one of you tried to fly lately?

I've gone through many security screens after 9-11, even after creation of the TSA, but now suddenly after posting over 300 times I am getting pulled out of line, searched and generally treated like a criminal every single time. I've heard others on this board say the same thing. There is no way there isn't a connection.