Filipino former soldiers and policemen are among the hired security men (and possibly women) who are in Iraq as “mercenaries.”...The chief of the UN working-group on the use of mercenaries, Jose Luis Gomez del Prado...[spoke] of the recruits being “trained quickly” and coming out of the training “unprepared for armed conflict situations.”...These private security guards serving western companies in Iraq make up the second highest number of armed forces now in that country after the US military.