[LINK] "Recruiting Mercenaries for Middle East Fuels Rancor in Colombia"

Jan 02, 2016 17:57

Bloomberg's Matthew Bristow and Nafeesa Syeed report on how the habit of Middle Eastern countries of recruiting Colombian mercenaries to fight in regional wars is not playing well at all in Colombia itself.

Colombia’s government is frustrated at having its top soldiers lured to the Middle East as mercenaries for Saudi Arabia and the United Arab ( Read more... )

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robby January 2 2016, 23:09:47 UTC
I'll bet the Columbian government really just wants to broker the deals directly. They want the millions funneled into their offshore bank accounts.

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