Private Military Companies (catch all)

[AdamG]

How a Swedish professor helped rescue a grad student from ISIS-controlled Iraq
The student said he was amazed to see a group of six armed men in two four-wheel drive vehicles show up to take him and his family to safety.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/h...d-iraq-n947866

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[AdamG]

21st century life is becoming a cyberpunk novel.

Prince, brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, has made no secret about his ambitions in China. But since he became chairman of Frontier Services Group in Hong Kong five years ago, CITIC, his mainland benefactor, has slowly cemented its grip on the firm. Prince stepped down as FSG Chairman in December to make way for a new boss from the conglomerate, which has amassed a bigger stake than Prince’s 9 percent.

International Attention
Now FSG has drawn international attention for a signing ceremony to build a training center in far western China, where the Chinese government has detained as many as a million Uighur Muslims in political camps. The statement, made in Chinese, was subsequently removed from the firm’s website. Prince distanced himself from the region in a statement to Bloomberg.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...n-chinese-boss

[AdamG]

Double-tap from the Haiti thread.

This is well worth the read, if merely as a guideline for what not to do.

U.S. MERCENARIES ARRESTED IN HAITI WERE PART OF A HALF-BAKED SCHEME TO MOVE $80 MILLION FOR EMBATTLED PRESIDENT
https://theintercept.com/2019/03/20/...ary-operation/