Executive Outcomes - Revision history

Tom Griffin: /* People */

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Melissa Jones: intro sentence/ typo

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Tom Griffin: /* People */

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Tom Griffin: category:South Africa

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category:South Africa

Tom Griffin at 21:21, 27 April 2008

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Tom Griffin: Angola/Congo

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Angola/Congo

Tom Griffin: /* People */

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Tom Griffin at 20:36, 15 April 2008

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Tom Griffin at 20:35, 15 April 2008

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Tom Griffin at 19:34, 15 April 2008

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 *[[Lonny Keller]]
 *[[Lafras Luitingh]]
 *[[Roelf van Heerden]]
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 *[[Niel Steyl]]
 *[[Duncan Rykaart]]
 ==References==

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-South African mercenary firm.
+'''Executive Outcomes''' is a South African mercenary firm.
-::[[Executive Outcomes]] was founded in 1989 by [[Eeben Barlow]]. a former assistant commander of the [[32 Battalion|32nd Battalion]] of [[South African Defence Force|SADF]] and then agent with the South African [[Civil Cooperation Bureau]] (CCB). <ref>Corporate Warriors:The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry, by P.W. Singer, Cornell University Press, 2003, p102.</ref>
+::Executive Outcomes was founded in 1989 by [[Eeben Barlow]], a former assistant commander of the [[32 Battalion|32nd Battalion]] of [[South African Defence Force|SADF]] and then agent with the South African [[Civil Cooperation Bureau]] (CCB). <ref>Corporate Warriors:The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry, by P.W. Singer, Cornell University Press, 2003, p102.</ref>
 ==Angola==

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 *[[Harry Carlse]]
 *[[Niel Steyl]]
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 South African mercenary firm.
-::[[Executive Outcomes]] was founded in 1989 by [[Eeben Barlow]]. a former assistant commander of the [[32 Battalion|32nd Battalion]] of [[South African Defence Force|SADF]] and then agent with the South African [[Civil Cooperation Bureau]] ((CCB). <ref>Corporate Warriors:The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry, by P.W. Singer, Cornell University Press, 2003, p102.</ref>
+::[[Executive Outcomes]] was founded in 1989 by [[Eeben Barlow]]. a former assistant commander of the [[32 Battalion|32nd Battalion]] of [[South African Defence Force|SADF]] and then agent with the South African [[Civil Cooperation Bureau]] (CCB). <ref>Corporate Warriors:The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry, by P.W. Singer, Cornell University Press, 2003, p102.</ref>
 ==Angola==

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	::[[Executive Outcomes]] was founded in 1989 by [[Eeben Barlow]]. a former assistant commander of the [[32 Battalion\|32nd Battalion]] of [[South African Defence Force\|SADF]] and then agent with the South African [[Civil Cooperation Bureau]] ((CCB). <ref>Corporate Warriors:The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry, by P.W. Singer, Cornell University Press, 2003, p102.</ref>		::[[Executive Outcomes]] was founded in 1989 by [[Eeben Barlow]]. a former assistant commander of the [[32 Battalion\|32nd Battalion]] of [[South African Defence Force\|SADF]] and then agent with the South African [[Civil Cooperation Bureau]] ((CCB). <ref>Corporate Warriors:The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry, by P.W. Singer, Cornell University Press, 2003, p102.</ref>
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		+	==Angola==
		+	===Soyo===
		+	In January 1993, [[UNITA]] over-ran Soyo, an important supply base for several oil companies. [[UNITA]] refused requests for access. [[Tony Buckingham]] of [[Heritage Oil]] discussed the issue with other oil companies, and his associate [[Simon Mann]] suggested an approach to [[Eeben Barlow]]'s private military company [[Executive Outcomes]] for help. A proposal to retake Soyo was agreed with the Angolan Government.<ref>Making a Killing: How Corporations Use Armed Force to Do Business, by [[Madelaine Drohan]], Random House Canada, 2003, pp205-207.</ref>
		+	[[Executive Outcomes]] began its assault on Soyo on February 16 1993, and succeeded in taking the town, which as however, retaken by [[UNITA]] after EO's withdrawal some six weeks later.<ref>Bloodsong, by [[Jim Hooper]], HarperCollinsPublishers, 2003, pp42-54.</ref>
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		+	==Democratic Republic of Congo==
		+	::In 1996, during [[Laurent Kabila]]’s [[ADFL]] and the [[Rwandan Patriotic Army]]’s (RPA) rush to Kinshasa to unseat [[Mobutu Sese Seko\|Mobutu]], [[Executive Outcomes]] was hired to provide air support for the soldiers. One Congolese source recalled their gunships stationed on the hills behind the Mugunga camps as well as over Lake Kivu. They would shell the camps at night in an attempt to kill Hutu refugees who had run away from Rwanda following the genocide and clear the way for advancing troops.<ref>[http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=2&ItemID=10638 Update on the Congo], by [[David Barouski]], [[ZNet]], 25 July 2006.</ref>

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 ==People==
 *[[Eeben Barlow]]
 *[[Lafras Luitingh]]
 *[[Roelf van Heerden]]