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::Two former British special service officers with oil interests in Africa hired [[Eeben Barlow|Barlow]] and a colleague to recruit a band of mercenaries for two month’s work in north-western Angola in January 1993. The operation sounded simple – capture and defend valuable oil tanks at Kefekwena and then do the same for the oil town of Soyo which had been overrun by the troops of [[Jonas Savimbi]]’s União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola ([[UNITA]]). Barlow brought in [[Lafras Luitingh]], a former CCB cell leader who had been touting for private security contracts in Luanda in 1992 while he evaded South African authorities who wanted him for questioning in connection with the murder of anthropologist and ANC activist, [[David Webster]] in Johannesburg in 1989.<ref>[http://www.iss.co.za/PUBS/Books/PeaceProfitPlunder/Chap5.pdf Executive Outcomes- A Corporate Conquest], by Khareen Pech, Chapter Five, Jakkie Cilliers and Peggy Mason (eds), Peace, profit or plunder? The privatisation of security in war-torn African societies, Institute for Security Studies, Pretoria, 1999.</ref>
colleague to recruit a band of mercenaries for two month’s work in north-western Angola in
 
January 1993. The operation sounded simple – capture and defend valuable oil tanks at
 
Kefekwena and then do the same for the oil town of Soyo which had been overrun by the
 
troops of Jonas Savimbi’s União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola ([[UNITA]]).
 
Barlow brought in Lafras Luitingh, a former CCB cell leader who had been touting for private
 
security contracts in Luanda in 1992 while he evaded South African authorities who wanted
 
him for questioning in connection with the murder of anthropologist and ANC activist, [[David Webster]] in Johannesburg in 1989.<ref>[http://www.iss.co.za/PUBS/Books/PeaceProfitPlunder/Chap5.pdf Executive Outcomes- A Corporate Conquest]], by Khareen Pech, Chapter Five, Jakkie Cilliers and Peggy Mason (eds), Peace, profit or plunder? The privatisation of security in war-torn African societies, Institute for Security Studies, Pretoria, 1999.</ref>
 
  
 
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Two former British special service officers with oil interests in Africa hired Barlow and a colleague to recruit a band of mercenaries for two month’s work in north-western Angola in January 1993. The operation sounded simple – capture and defend valuable oil tanks at Kefekwena and then do the same for the oil town of Soyo which had been overrun by the troops of Jonas Savimbi’s União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola (UNITA). Barlow brought in Lafras Luitingh, a former CCB cell leader who had been touting for private security contracts in Luanda in 1992 while he evaded South African authorities who wanted him for questioning in connection with the murder of anthropologist and ANC activist, David Webster in Johannesburg in 1989.[1]

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  1. Executive Outcomes- A Corporate Conquest, by Khareen Pech, Chapter Five, Jakkie Cilliers and Peggy Mason (eds), Peace, profit or plunder? The privatisation of security in war-torn African societies, Institute for Security Studies, Pretoria, 1999.