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ashear
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Username: Ashear

Post Number: 988
Registered: 5-2001
Posted on Thursday, February 19, 2004 - 5:00 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
And you thought Halliburton was bad. This is just really disturbing:

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In its effort to relieve overstretched U.S. troops in Iraq, the Bush administration has hired a private security company staffed with former henchmen of South Africa’s apartheid regime.
The reliance on apartheid enforcers was highlighted by an attack in Iraq last month that killed one South African security officer and wounded another who worked for the subsidiary of a firm called Erinys International. Both men once served in South African paramilitary units dedicated to the violent repression of apartheid opponents.



http://www.forward.com/main/article.php?ref=perelman20040218608
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themp
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Username: Themp

Post Number: 527
Registered: 12-2001
Posted on Thursday, February 19, 2004 - 10:04 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
Yes but of course Rep Dick Cheney in 1986 cast his vote against U.S. recognition of the African National Congress in South Africa, freedom for the organization's then-imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela and negotiations with the black majority.

(How cheap is my excuse to bring that up?)

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