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Tom Griffin at 21:47, 11 April 2008

2008-04-11T21:47:40Z

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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.<ref>[http://www.namibian.com.na/Netstories/June98/execlink.html Executive Outcomes and its tangled links], by [[Werner Menges]], [[The Namibian]], 7 July 1998.</ref>

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	::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.<ref>[http://www.namibian.com.na/Netstories/June98/execlink.html Executive Outcomes and its tangled links], by [[Werner Menges]], [[The Namibian]], 7 July 1998.</ref>		::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.<ref>[http://www.namibian.com.na/Netstories/June98/execlink.html Executive Outcomes and its tangled links], by [[Werner Menges]], [[The Namibian]], 7 July 1998.</ref>
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		+	==Sierra Leone==
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		+	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 International\|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. <ref>An Unorthodox Soldier: Peace and War and the Sandline Affair, by [[Tim Spicer]], Mainstream Publishing]] 1999, p190.</ref>
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		+	[[Sandline International\|Sandline]] had one person in Freetown and a team in Conakry, Guinea, to back up the [[Lifeguard]] personnel.
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		+	==References==
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Tom Griffin: Spicer quote

Tom Griffin at 21:47, 11 April 2008