“There was a targeted assassination program in Yemen. I was running it. We did it.”
UAE Contracted An American Hit Squad to Kill Political Figures And More in Yemen *The War Zone/The Drive)
Cradling an AK-47 and sucking a lollipop, the former American Green Beret bumped along in the back of an armored SUV as it wound through the darkened streets of Aden. Two other commandos on the mission were former Navy SEALs. As elite US special operations fighters, they had years of specialized training by the US military to protect America. But now they were working for a different master: a private US company that had been hired by the United Arab Emirates, a tiny desert monarchy on the Persian Gulf.
On that night, December 29, 2015, their job was to carry out an assassination.
Their armed attack, described to BuzzFeed News by two of its participants and corroborated by drone surveillance footage, was the first operation in a startling for-profit venture. For months in war-torn Yemen, some of America’s most highly trained soldiers worked on a mercenary mission of murky legality to kill prominent clerics and Islamist political figures.
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Update: UAE Contracted An American Hit Squad to Kill Political Figures And More in Yemen (Warzone/The Drive)
WNU Editor: Mercenaries have been used since the beginning of time. This is not the future of war .... this is how a large number of wars have been fought throughout history.
4 comments:
Should be illegal. If you kill for money you're a murderer. Don't care if it happens on foreign soil. If you come back, prison should wait for you.
How would you have reacted had you come across OBL somewhere? You could always donate your salary to assuage your sense of guilt.
Besides, your comment indicts every soldier since time began and that timespan covers a bunch of "big meanies" that come under the Mattis Doctrine; some people need to be killed.
If you can justify the behavior of some of them, please do. You choose'm, anon. Have at it.
Anon 513 is of the opinion that if you are attacked by a 20 million man army which which has committed numerous war crimes, you are obligated to give them each trials and if you cannot then it is catch and release time to let them keep fighting.
War is war, And war is dirty. Always. There is no way to make it painless, or clean.
As long as there is war there will be people who thrive on it. Whether they are a merchant of death selling weapons, or soldiers of fortune fighting for money and glory.
The fact of the matter is that these entities are, at the worst of times, amoral. Not immoral. At the best of times they have honor codes stricter than any military.
When hiring out your skills to "bad men," most of the time they are sending you to take out other "bad men." Now if you ask me, getting paid by bad guys to take out bad guys is a pretty good way to live.
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