Reply #32: Stan Goff posts new article about Blackwater and Mercenaries

[JohnyCanuck]

Stan Goff the ex US Army Special Forces Sergeant just posted an article he wrote about the new mercenary outfits and their use by Uncle Sam to do the dirty stuff Uncle Sam doesn't want to be held accountable for if and when shit hits the fan. For example, he gave the case of the US missionary's plane which was falsely identified as a drug runner and shot down on the advice of one of these civilian "contractor" agencies which had been hired to provide reconnaissance services for the CIA in South America. A mother and her 7 month old daughter died in the subsequent crash. When the US Congress tried to investigate they couldn't get any answers from the State Department or from the CIA and were told that no information could be provided about the incident because of "privacy concerns" as the company was a private entity.

Here's what Goff had to say about Blackwater and one of its senior people Gary Jackson, apparently killed in Fallujah.

On the combat end, Blackwater USA is mostly ex-SEALs with a few former SWAT cops thrown in, run by a blustering hyper-macho ex-SEAL named Gary Jackson. One of the victims of the Fallujah ambush – a WWF-looking body-builder-type – had boasted to a reporter staying in his hotel in Baghdad that he preferred hand-to-hand combat so he could see his quarry eye to eye. When I was running a Special Forces A-Detachment, this kind of talk would have sent me seeking a way to reassign you out of my team.

But it's part of that whole right-wing culture of militarism, one that is pimped aggressively by the entertainment media to our young, who have no notion of its fascistic origins.

Executive Outcomes, based in South Africa, and broken into smaller groups two years ago to further conceal its activities, is run by veterans of the Apartheid regime's dirty wars. The oddly named LIAT Finance and Construction, of Israel, specialized in raiding Sierra Leone for its diamonds, and Israeli mercenaries in Latin America are known to contract with governments and drug cartels by turns. Sandline of UK, mostly peopled by ex-SAS, was also involved in Sierra Leone.13. Blackwater has actually hired former members of the military of Augusto Pinochet, the reactionary dictator of Chile installed during a 1973 CIA-supported coup d'etat.14

The list of these PMCs is long and growing, and they are being filled with these macho military narcissists.

Following our DU copyright rules, I can only post 4 paragraphs. The complete article is available at Mike Ruppert's From The Wilderness website for subscribers at: http://www.fromthewilderness.com/members/040604_mercs.html

You will have to subscribe to the web site to read the article (I think it's about $30US per year). In addition to the subscriber only material, there's lots of free articles on Bush and 9/11, Peak Oil and the energy crisis, CIA and drug smuggling etc. available at www.fromthewilderness.com , so you can check it out and see for yourself where Ruppert's coming from before you decide to shell out the cash.