Saracen International
Saracen International is a private security company.
According to Khareen Pech, Saracen International was registered in Uganda and Tanzania in the mind-1990s as part of the expansion of the Executive Outcomes corporate network in the mid-1990s.[1]
According to Pech, Saracen was one of the companies that took over Executive Outcomes (EO) business in Angola, after following the latter's withdrawal in the face of US pressure in 1996.[2]
Saracen has undertaken de-mining work in Angola, Uganda, Bosnia and Mozambique.[3]
Somalia
In December 2010, the Washington Times reported that the company had signed a contract to train the forces of Somalia's transitional federal government:
- Saracen's chief operating officer, who signed the contract with the TFG, is Lafras Luitingh, a former South African intelligence officer who worked as a senior officer for Executive Outcomes, an Africa-based security contractor that was dissolved in 1999.[4]
External Resources
- Guy Adams, 'Prince of Mercenaries' who wreaked havoc in Iraq turns up in Somalia, Independent, 22 January 2011.
Notes
- ↑ 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, p.90.
- ↑ 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, p.91.
- ↑ 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, p.101.
- ↑ Eli Lake, Private firm trains Somalis to scuttle pirates, Washington Times, 28 December 2010.
