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PERU-IRAQ: A Year in Hell for 1,000 Dollars a Month
By Ángel Páez
LIMA, Nov 6 (IPS) - Former Peruvian noncommissioned army officer Norman Alfonso Solano is happy because he has once again been recruited to work as a private security guard in one of the most dangerous places in the world: Iraq.
Although he saw fellow security guards killed by the Iraqi resistance when he was working in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, Solano clenched his teeth and told himself, "I need the money." This time he is heading to Baghdad. The robust 46-year-old 1.80-metre tall Solano forms part of a new contingent of former members of the Peruvian armed forces and police who will guard U.S. installations in Iraq for a year in exchange for a hefty paycheck, by Peruvian standards: 1,000 dollars a month.
Link to story
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=39941
Do other countries from Central or South America take part in either war? I didn't South American personnel were involved.
PERU-IRAQ: A Year in Hell for 1,000 Dollars a Month
By Ángel Páez
LIMA, Nov 6 (IPS) - Former Peruvian noncommissioned army officer Norman Alfonso Solano is happy because he has once again been recruited to work as a private security guard in one of the most dangerous places in the world: Iraq.
Although he saw fellow security guards killed by the Iraqi resistance when he was working in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, Solano clenched his teeth and told himself, "I need the money." This time he is heading to Baghdad. The robust 46-year-old 1.80-metre tall Solano forms part of a new contingent of former members of the Peruvian armed forces and police who will guard U.S. installations in Iraq for a year in exchange for a hefty paycheck, by Peruvian standards: 1,000 dollars a month.
Link to story
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=39941
Do other countries from Central or South America take part in either war? I didn't South American personnel were involved.
