U.S. Now Recruiting Kenyans To Send To Iraq?

[RestoreGore]

http://allafrica.com/stories/200708020956.html

Kenya: Recruits to Serve in Iraq
East African Standard (Nairobi)

3 August 2007
Steve Mkawale
Nairobi

A company contracted by the US Government has been recruiting ex-military men and former police officers to serve in war-torn Iraq.

The Standard has established that Sentry Security of East Africa Limited, a liaison company for Sentry Security of East Africa, USA, is targeting to take some 800 Kenyans to serve in Iraq.

The first batch of ex-army soldiers and former police officers with clean service records is expected to leave the country sometime this month, according to sources privy to the exercise.

The recruitment of the former security personnel, aged between 30 and 50, has been going on across the country for the past two months.

Necessary documents have been made available

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On Thursday, SSEA Country Director Mr J Kimuri confirmed that they were recruiting ex-soldiers to serve as guards and escorts.

Kimuri said they were recruiting ex-military personnel because they have experience to serve in places like Iraq and Sudan, which are experiencing war.

He, however, could not reveal when the recruits would leave for the mission in Iraq dubbed SSEA-Iraq.

Sources privy to the recruitment said the qualified applicants would serve in Iraq for a period of 12 months.

US Ambassador Michael Ranneberger has, however, said he was not aware of an exercise involving the recruitment of Kenya ex-soldiers and that the US Agency Sentry Securities was a private company and is not in anyway connected with the American Government.
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Well, if an Ambassador for this regime says it isn't true, then it isn't true. :sarcasm: Are they mercenaries? Who will they torture? I can't even go to the place in thinking what this really may all be about. I sometimes wonder how I can get up and do this everyday.

[Maq]

1. Rome started to fail when

they started hiring North Africans to do their Military fighting.

Any historians here that could clarify this school memory.

[RestoreGore]

2. yes, because their allegiance is only to themselves

And they must have been paid well.

[MisterHowdy]

3. Kenyans are better.

Because very few Americans actually care if a Kenyan dies.
They probably would fight for a lot less money.
The US wouldn't have to worry about looking after them after they get hurt or PTSD.

And the war could keep on going.
The wars popularity might even increase slightly,
because its not Americans dying, just Kenyans.

This is the republican way.
I'm going to puke.

[Maq]

4. it's a toss up; Kenyans or Chinese

Repugs have outsourced most manufacturing to China. Why not a "Made in China" soldier too.

[flashl]

5. One of Donald Rumsfeld's last acts

as Defense secretary was to urge President Bush to let the Pentagon create a new Africa Command. The stated reasons: countering Al Qaeda presence in Africa, safeguarding future oil supplies, and competing with China for Africa’s oil.

Looks like they figured out how to get a bonus, recruit soldiers for Iraq. But, one has to wonder, if things were so bad in Africa to justify the creation of a new U.S. Command, why send Africans to Iraq?

[butterfly77]

6. These people outsource and privatize everything....

what did they do in ww2 did they privatize and contract out anyone then. Now, I hear they want to privatize the bridges.