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Jose L. Gomez del Prado

Is a member of the United Nations Working Group on
Mercenaries

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The mercenaries or the corsairs of the XXI Century?

by Jose L. Gomez del Prado

Caracas (Venezuela) | 11 July 2006

The 25 000 private security contractors presently working in Iraq
constitute, after the United States Army, the largest force of occupation
well before the British Army. These private security companies with over 420
deaths and some 4 000 injured, according to the USA Department of Labor, (…)