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Boy, the world never ceases to surprise me
Really, is there any fun of seeing an innocent person die? I learned about it today from this article [1] and a quick googling confirmed the bbc journalist aren't hallucinating. Now, what was the need of that war again? WMD -> None, Bring humanity -> Nope, replaced on beast for an equally evil one. Thanks god history will judge Mr Blair well.
- As much of a political opinion as the above is, ...any who
(reason for my edit)
I edited the entry to clear up some misconceptions that partisan media groups are prone to spread. Groups like the Cristian Science Monitor and UK Guardian are generally good outlets but their info on the video story was inaccurate and therefore should only be mentioned as a footnote on mainstream media inadvertantly spreading misconceptions.
One lists random shooting of Iraqis--the video does not show that. It shows vehicles rapidly approaching PSD convoys where everyone else in the area noticed the huge sign thats stenciled on the back of the vehicles, (in Arabic), telling them to stay 100 meters back or be fired upon--a detail that has yet to be mentioned in the media but is severely mandatory for Aegis vehicles. Notice all the other vehicles in the distance--they're not stopped at a stop light or sign...they're slowly rolling forward pacing the convoy.
The contention in the video, (and the subject matter of the investigation), is not weather the vehicles should've been fired upon or not, but instead--why did they sustain fire after the vehicles stopped and from such a distance. --TBAS 01:57, 7 February 2006 (UTC) 06 Feb 2006
Plagiarism
"Aegis Defence Services is a London, U.K.–based private military company with overseas offices in Afghanistan, Bahrain, Iraq, Kenya, Nepal and the United States."
The very first sentence of this article is also the very first sentence of Aegis' homepage. tildetildetildetilde
Mercenary and other controversies
Where is the description of illegal and mercenary activities of Aegis? There are lot of sources. The company has failed all it's major missions, was involved in numerous illegal deals, and it is not listed here.
To start with: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Aegis_Defence_Services
Thebiggestmac ( talk) 17:30, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
neutral?
This reads like a copy from Aegis' corporate brochures, but not like an objective entry. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.114.130.170 ( talk) 17:16, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
The Duke of Wellington Turns in his Grave
Wow! this page took a "suspiciously" long time to load....I assume my IP address is now known to various shady paramilitary and mercenary organisations, and flagged as "potential trouble-maker". The kind of activilty that these PMCs indulge in disgusts me. One can kind of imagine it being par-for-the-course Stateside, where corruption of Government by Big Business is pretty much a given, almost institutionalised, but it Britain...? I thought we had more decency and self respect. Whatever happened to "Queen and Country"....? 82.5.68.95 ( talk) 01:12, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
| This page is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Boy, the world never ceases to surprise me
Really, is there any fun of seeing an innocent person die? I learned about it today from this article [1] and a quick googling confirmed the bbc journalist aren't hallucinating. Now, what was the need of that war again? WMD -> None, Bring humanity -> Nope, replaced on beast for an equally evil one. Thanks god history will judge Mr Blair well.
- As much of a political opinion as the above is, ...any who
(reason for my edit)
I edited the entry to clear up some misconceptions that partisan media groups are prone to spread. Groups like the Cristian Science Monitor and UK Guardian are generally good outlets but their info on the video story was inaccurate and therefore should only be mentioned as a footnote on mainstream media inadvertantly spreading misconceptions.
One lists random shooting of Iraqis--the video does not show that. It shows vehicles rapidly approaching PSD convoys where everyone else in the area noticed the huge sign thats stenciled on the back of the vehicles, (in Arabic), telling them to stay 100 meters back or be fired upon--a detail that has yet to be mentioned in the media but is severely mandatory for Aegis vehicles. Notice all the other vehicles in the distance--they're not stopped at a stop light or sign...they're slowly rolling forward pacing the convoy.
The contention in the video, (and the subject matter of the investigation), is not weather the vehicles should've been fired upon or not, but instead--why did they sustain fire after the vehicles stopped and from such a distance. --TBAS 01:57, 7 February 2006 (UTC) 06 Feb 2006
Plagiarism
"Aegis Defence Services is a London, U.K.–based private military company with overseas offices in Afghanistan, Bahrain, Iraq, Kenya, Nepal and the United States."
The very first sentence of this article is also the very first sentence of Aegis' homepage. tildetildetildetilde
Mercenary and other controversies
Where is the description of illegal and mercenary activities of Aegis? There are lot of sources. The company has failed all it's major missions, was involved in numerous illegal deals, and it is not listed here.
To start with: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Aegis_Defence_Services
Thebiggestmac ( talk) 17:30, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
neutral?
This reads like a copy from Aegis' corporate brochures, but not like an objective entry. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.114.130.170 ( talk) 17:16, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
The Duke of Wellington Turns in his Grave
Wow! this page took a "suspiciously" long time to load....I assume my IP address is now known to various shady paramilitary and mercenary organisations, and flagged as "potential trouble-maker". The kind of activilty that these PMCs indulge in disgusts me. One can kind of imagine it being par-for-the-course Stateside, where corruption of Government by Big Business is pretty much a given, almost institutionalised, but it Britain...? I thought we had more decency and self respect. Whatever happened to "Queen and Country"....? 82.5.68.95 ( talk) 01:12, 10 April 2010 (UTC)