Mercenaries are second largest force in Iraq: UN official

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070203/wl_mideast_afp/peruiraqmilitary_070203144519;_ylt=An64SwO39KHM0YW8FkAR4xRX6GMA;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

LIMA (AFP) - Between 30,000 and 50,000 mercenaries are working in Iraq, making them the second largest military force there after the occupying United States.

The case of Iraq "is a new manifestation of the use of mercenaries that has caughts the US by surprise", Spain's Jose Luis Gomez del Prado -- a member of the UN working group on mercenaries -- said Fridayduring a visit to Peru.

The United States has 130,000 soldiers in Iraq, he noted. Britain has 10,000 troops.

Gomez del Prado told a news conference thousands of Peruvians, Chileans, Colombians, Hondurans and Ecuadorans had been contracted to work as mercenaries in Iraq, thanks to an array of legal loopholes.

The trend has caused widespread public concern in Peru.

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1. So this is what George has been talking about.

He wove the idea into a speech that Africans should serve worldwide - reference peace keeping? What is the Bush definition of peace keeping?

Rev Moon has parked himself in Paraguay on several million acres of land. The U.S. opened up some bases there. Moon - participant in arranging nuclear parts to North Korea?

Training SOuth American mercenaries who can fight your wars for you and then protect you when you move to Paraguay on land adjacent to Moon so that they can protect you in your next business - controlling and selling water in the largest aquafir in this hemiephere, plus make war on Bolivia for the gas.

So, we are left up to the ethics and values of South American Andes Indian and Hispanic citizens?

kick recommend to be explored. This news piece doesn't appear to be planted by Bolton.