Lifeguard
An obscure private military company, or group of companies, reportedly linked to the Executive Outcomes network.
- According to a DiamondWorks document dated February 1997, the company Lifeguard Management Ltd - which was in April 1996 in an application from Indigo Sky Gems for a loan under the European Union's SYSMIN facility stated to be controlled by Branch Energy Ltd - had been contracted on April 6 1996, by Branch Energy Ltd to provide security services for the Branch Energy Ltd mining properties in the Kono area in Sierra Leone. Lifeguard Security Sierra Leone Limited, "an affiliate of Executive Outcomes" according to the DiamondWorks document, provided the services.[1]
Sierra Leone
According to Tim Spicer, Lifeguard was present in Sierra Leone at the time that Ahmed Tejan Kabbah's government was overthrown.
- By the time his government was overthrown, we also had business interests in Sierra Leone, for although Sandline does not undertake security work, we have an associate company, Lifeguard, which undertakes commercial security tasks. In 1997 Lifeguard was guarding a number of industrial concerns in Sierra leone, including a diamond mine, an industrial plant and the important Bumbuma Dam. [2]
Sandline had one person in Freetown and a team in Conakry, Guinea, to back up the Lifeguard personnel.
References
- ↑ Executive Outcomes and its tangled links, by Werner Menges, The Namibian, 7 July 1998.
- ↑ An Unorthodox Soldier: Peace and War and the Sandline Affair, by Tim Spicer, Mainstream Publishing]] 1999, p190.
