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“having inspired the Academy Award-nominated Blood Diamond movie in 2006 in a 2015 novel of the same name. The firm's reputation was well-founded. After the operations, it conducted in Angola and Sierra Leone in the mid-1990s. Now, you guys …”
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And unfortunately for Bout, he was on the opposite side of the CIA trying to help the indigenous people, much like Che Cavera. So at least he didn't end up like Che Cavera. And then, of course, he got his name Sanction Buster because he's t…
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peninsula that sticks down and then it has the big bend in it that goes out to the west, it reminds you a lot of the state of Florida. So as you go down the peninsula, you have Equatorial Guinea, you have Angola down there, and then at the …
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Oh, Gannett coup, Burkina Faso coup, Mali coup, Sierra Leone coup, because they pretty much all look alike too. It may be a difference in the fact that one has gold versus uranium versus whatever, but basically they've all been couped. And …
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Where's his name again? Barnett, Thomas Barnett, wrote called The Pentagon's New Map. It was published in 2004. I will find that and post it later if Bridget doesn't beat me to it during the course of the show. But another bullet point, the…
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that operated out of sierra sierra leone region in west africa now what i found very interesting about him because i didn't know this and that's what you find out about all of this that area of africa was known for rice plantations and peop…
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And the reason that is, is because of these slaves coming over from Sierra Leone. His business was from South Carolina to Sierra Leone. That was his slave trading route. And a lot of the people that was originally brought over from Africa i…
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just in case you wanted to know that part. He also operated in Zambia and Sierra Leone, providing training teams and advising on security matters. So he's basically an Otto Skorzeny going around training terrorists. Sterling also organized …
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having inspired the Academy Award-nominated Blood Diamond movie in 2006 in a 2015 novel of the same name. The firm's reputation was well-founded. After the operations, it conducted in Angola and Sierra Leone in the mid-1990s. Now, you guys …
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32nd Battalion, who were deployed into Angola and Sierra Leone to do basically gladio activities with the Cuban exiles and all of the other paramilitary that was deployed there. While working at MTS, Du Toit became a key figure in the infam…
▶ 46:47
Spicer moved on to Sierra Leone, where he became ensnared in what became Arms for Africa scandal. Executive Outcome had departed the nation in January, and the regime of Ahmed Tahan Kabbah, K-A-B-B-A-H, that they had helped install was soon…
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Kamajar units loyal to Kaba and received assistance from a Nigerian force as part of a UN mission. Sandline's plan was a success with a counter coup driving the rebel forces from the capital. It was in the aftermath that things blew up. In …
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despite Sierra Leone being under a UN arms embargo. To bypass the embargo, he arranged for the arms to be transferred to Nigeria first, and then they were going to pass them to Kaba's government. Spicer had secured approval for these effort…
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This shadowy network of former SAS men working at various private military companies came to be known as the Circuit. WatchGuard was a trailblazer. Its first operation was in where? Yemen. It also did work for the governments of Saudi Arabi…
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and that it was not part of the process to look at the backgrounds of the principals. That's bullshit, by the way. Others disagreed and believed the government knew exactly what they were doing, and that is true. Supporting that theory, a f…
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The prime minister was forced to resign and eventually Spicer was released. The next year, the second Sandline scandal occurred in Sierra Leone. This one was labeled by the media as arms for Africa. It caused a considerable stir during the …
▶ 23:55
the Project Matrix contract. In brief, Sandline allegedly violated a UN arms embargo when it supplied at least 1,000 AK-47s, as well as mortar, light machine guns, and ammunition to coup plotters favoring the return of Sierra Leone's exile …
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the arms capital of the illicit arms capital of the world, evidently, were paid for by Canadian-based Thai, as in Thailand, imagine that, businessmen, who represented a group of investors with mining interests in Sierra Leone. It's always t…
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a few blocks away from K Street's office in Washington. He looked like an investment banker on holiday. It was hard to imagine him in a Papua New Guinea jail cell or surrounded by rebels in Sierra Leone during a mission to overthrow the gov…