Isn't there enough murder, torture, extortion and bombing in Baghdad without this?? [Via AFP].
A US firm based in Ecuador has announced that it has hired 1,000 Colombian ex-military and police as mercenaries in Iraq at one-half the cost of US mercenaries.
Columbians "have been fighting terrorists for 41 years and they are experts in certain domains" such as bomb disposal and anti-guerrilla operations. The company, Epi Security and Investigation (www.iraqijobcenter.com), operates from Manta, 260 km southwest of Quito and is owned by Jeffrey Shippy, a US citizen. Epi Security's headquarters is not far from a base leased by the United States to station its aircraft and troops deployed from Panama.
So is this why Negroponte is back in the USA?