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Originally posted by Azred:
It is a fact that during the early 1990s that mercernary corporations were able to more stabilize various African nations more effectively and efficiently that either nations or the UN. We always will have a love/hate relationship with mercs, but they will always be with us.
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"Even though the firm's expertise lay in fighting bush wars, it diversified and reportedly operated as many as 32 companies, whose interests range from computer software to adult education. The firm's tactic of quickly regaining control of a client country's mineral-rich regions is well-documented. Within a month of Sierra Leone's hiring of Executive Outcomes in May 1995, government forces had regained control of the diamond-rich Kono district, which produces two-thirds of Sierra Leone's diamonds. In Angola, oil- and diamond-producing regions were the first areas secured by government forces trained by Executive Outcomes. The firm also reportedly mined gold in Uganda, drilled boreholes in Ethiopia and had a variety of interests in the other countries noted above."
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http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/ex...e_outcomes.htm