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That is not true - they are a private business company that become actiove by order of it's
customers. and that can be everyone having the money.
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You are talking about individuals here, not mercenary unit's.
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No I don't.
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The miserable record of merc operations in Columbia - well rejected in the US, I know
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Not at all. It's no secret that the CIA hires ex-special forces and pilots to work in South America against rebel's and drug lords. I'd call that sanctioned. There was even two stories last year on it. One was on the dangers of the job ( a wife complained because her husband was killed), and another was when a plane went down and the pilot and operaters were gone when rescue got to them. presumably by the bad guys, never to be seen again.
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No, I referred to the unpleasant truth behgind the operations, their real intetion, that is widely rejected in the US public awareness. see next below.
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Locals complain heavily about their presence, and two years ago their have been several allegations
of drug-related murder commited by mercs.
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Haven't heard a thing.
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See above concering "rejected". While you may not find it in american press, two and three years ago it made it into major news reporting and lead essays in Germany and Austria. Even radio broadcasters put major efforts into analysing the situation in hours-long features. I must have two such lengthy recordings soimewhere. If you can understand german, I'll find them and copy and send them to you. they are quite revealing, and backed by solid sources at location. It'S about widespread organized murder, drug trafficing and merc units waging offensive guerilla war against local rebels that resist American companies claiming ground property in areas that are of interst for the big business of the future: ressources for biotech companies researching in chemistry, and pharmaceutics in the main, but other areas of economic interest as well.
I say again, you see the true face behind the public mask of the international merc business too tame, believing the claims that are made about nthem by officials in public. "Never trust a public spokesman!" If they are banned here and there, is of little importance. Note that some articles linked in this thread specifically point at that merc companies specifically work outside legal countercontrol, and without licenses, and do not care if they are legalized in their action by the government in place. A widespread problem, obviously. such companies are priovate armies that can be rent by everybody, and that do operate outside recognition and countercontrol by public representatioves and the american congress. that's why they are loved so much: because they cannot be questioned and controlled by Congress.
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In 2003, France criminalized mercenary activities.
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Absurd. One could argue that the "legion etranger" is nothing else but a mercenary unit.