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Middle East Monitor
April 26, 2018
“The policies implemented,” continued the report, “appear to have had the purpose of forcing compliance with the interrogators”. 'US mercenaries' hired to 'torture' Saudi royals. Al-Marri said he had travelled to the US with his wife and five children legally on 10 September 2001, to attend graduate school inÃâà...
The New Arab
April 25, 2018
Arab countries are unlikely ever to support their militaries being used, in effect, as pro-American mercenaries. And even if some nations, such as the Saudis, either agreed to send troops or to chip in financially, the problem does not end. An "Arab force" is not just likely to be less effective than the AmericansÃâà...
New York Times
April 18, 2018
Betrayed by their former boss — a South African crime lord who testified against them — three American men who worked as soldiers of fortune were convicted on Wednesday of a murder conspiracy plot to assassinate a real-estate agent in the Philippines six years ago. After only two hours of deliberations,Ãâà...
My Nintendo News (blog)
April 10, 2018
PM Studios has confirmed that a physical edition of Mercenaries Saga Chronicles on the Nintendo Switch will be arriving this summer. Mercenaries Saga Chronicles is a collection of all three Mercenaries Saga titles and was released on the Nintendo Switch in February of this year. Here's all the detailsÃâà...
EurasiaNet
March 21, 2018
A Thrush 510G crop dusting aircraft, a weaponized version of which was part of negotiations between American mercenary Erik Prince and the ... An American mercenary attempted to sell modified crop duster aircraft to Azerbaijan's military, contravening United States laws on defense exports, a newÃâà...
Observer
March 21, 2018
Mercenaries are often entangled in financial disputes lasting years between military firms and insurance companies. Getty Images/Kaitlyn Flannagan for Observer. A veteran of the U.S. Marine Corp., Mark Geist trained Iraqi S.W.A.T teams and fought in the Annex Security Team embroiled in the Battle ofÃâà...
Independent Online
March 19, 2018
“I play a former American mercenary who has found his 'spiritual side' and is trying to turn his life around,” he said. “You first meet him helping people in Haiti. “Then he's dragged into a kidnapping saga in Mexico. He doesn't want to get involved, and he probably shouldn't have (laughs) - it's like sending anÃâà...
Independent Online
March 17, 2018
“I play a former American mercenary who has found his 'spiritual side' and is trying to turn his life around,” he said. “You first meet him helping people in Haiti. “Then he's dragged into a kidnapping saga in Mexico. He doesn't want to get involved, and he probably shouldn't have (laughs) - it's like sending anÃâà...
The Conversation CA
March 11, 2018
The kid joins John Joel Glanton's real-life gang of American mercenaries circa 1849-50. Although hired by the Mexican states of Sonora and Chihuahua to combat the Apaches and Comanches with whom they struggled over territory, the notorious gang soon began killing and collecting “receipts” — that is,Ãâà...
POLITICO Magazine
March 10, 2018
Doors opened and closed at a beachside hotel in the Seychelles islands where a furtive meeting of a Lebanese-American fixer who specializes in the Middle East, an American mercenary leader, and a Russian moneyman with a Harvard MBA went down. According to Google Maps, it's a 19-hour,Ãâà...
Task & Purpose
March 1, 2018
My own guess is that the people who should be most worried are American mercenaries (AKA “private military contractors”) working for the CIA in the Middle East. They would be the prime targets in a response intended to send such a message. Might be in Syria, but also could be in Iraq or Yemen.
The Intercept
February 28, 2018
Even as mid-1990s action movies go, the plot of “The Substitute” is singularly ridiculous: An American mercenary (Tom Berenger) goes undercover to take on a drug gang operating out of an inner-city high school — and finds that he needs his military training just to get his violent students under control.
Middle East Eye
February 23, 2018
A Russian tycoon believed to control Russian mercenaries who attacked US troops and Kurd allies in Deir Ezzor told Syrian officials he would give Bashar al-Assad a "good surprise" days ahead of the assault, the Washington Post has reported. Yevgeniy Prigozhin was also in close contact with RussianÃâà...
MSR News Online
February 19, 2018
In short time, he is pulled out of his comfort zone when he is asked to track down Ulysses Klaue (Andy Serkis), a South African illegal arms dealer, who is involved with dastardly American mercenary Erik Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan). The two have a precious Wakandan artifact made of “vibranium,” aÃâà...
Mintpress News
February 16, 2018
Throughout living memory, U.S. covert operations have retained religious and nationalist extremists and compliant local chieftains to send wind-up toys to topple unfriendly “regimes.” by Geoff Dutton. February 16th, 2018. By Geoff DuttonÃâà...
The Guardian
February 11, 2018
(The fact the film climaxes with a morally impeccable ex-People's Liberation Army soldier stabbing a callous American mercenary in the brain possibly helped this angle along.) Hollywood movies were once regularly accused of “cultural imperialism”, but the rah-rah flag-waving of a Michael Bay film is nowÃâà...
Financial Tribune
December 10, 2017
... 04/03/2018Iran Steps In to Invest in Afghanistan Iron Ore Mine3; 06/29/2015IS Present in 3 Afghan Provinces4; 10/27/2015Afghan Mines: Great Boon to Iran 5; 09/09/2015Iran-Germany-Afghanistan Mining Cooperation6; 11/24/2017Alwaleed bin Talal Hung Upside Down and Beaten by US Mercenaries7Ãâà...
Financial Tribune
November 25, 2017
Alwaleed bin Talal Hung Upside Down and Beaten by US Mercenaries. Blackwater (aka Academi and Xe Services) ... Because the Saudi prince has reportedly hired a crew of American mercenaries who haven't hesitated to employ an array of “enhanced interrogation” techniques. As the Daily Mail reports,Ãâà...
The Express Tribune
November 23, 2017
The British media agency disclosed that the arrests have been followed by 'interrogations' which a source said were being carried out by 'American mercenaries' brought in to work for the 32-year-old crown prince, who is now the kingdom's most powerful figure. 'They are beating them, torturing them,Ãâà...
Middle East Monitor
November 23, 2017
US mercenaries are allegedly torturing Saudi royals and businessmen arrested during the anti-corruption purge ordered by Crown Prince Mohamed Bin Salman. American private security contractors, previously known as Blackwater – now operating under the name Academi – have been put in charge ofÃâà...
Center for Research on Globalization
October 23, 2017
While the US and European media provided little explanation as to how militants from the self-titled Islamic State (IS) managed to appear, expand and then fight for years against the combined military power of Iraq, Syria, Iran and Russia, it was abundantly clear to many analysts that the IS organization wasÃâà...
Middle East Monitor
May 12, 2017
In a further sign of the Iraqi military's inability to maintain security within the country's own borders, the Iraqi government has signed a contract with US mercenaries, also known as private military contractors, to secure the main road between Baghdad and the Jordanian capital of Amman. “The provincialÃâà...
The American Conservative
October 24, 2016
Rise of the American Mercenary. Thousands of private contractors are in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now they may be in Syria, too. By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos • October 25, 2016Ãâà...
