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Article

9 Mar 2007

Author:
CorpWatch

Mercenaries, Multinationals and Movies

There's...[many] films coming out about corporate malfeasance..."Shadow Company"...follows the tale of James Ashcroft...who...take[s] a job with a private security company in Baghdad, whom many human rights activists consider to be "mercenaries," or soldiers for hire made famous by Blackwater in Fallujah...film maker Bicanic...[says] ["i]t's simple math: you have a given individual who has the prospect of risking his life as part of a member of a nation-state military for X amount of dollars or doing virtually the exact same level of risk and almost the exact same job for roughly three to five times the money for a private company["]...All in all, it is very educational and a good introduction to this emerging business and the potential threats to human rights...Another...film that explains other contractors like Halliburton who do military logistics is "Iraq for Sale."...[which] also discusses contractors like CACI, which used to provide interrogators at Abu Ghraib and other prisons...[also refers to Executive Outcomes, L-3]