Apartheid assassins meet match in Iraq

[Dirk39]

By Gavin du Venage in Cape Town
April 27, 2004

"SOME of the worst human rights violators of the apartheid era, including a man who helped kill 14 civilians while they slept, have been employed as security contractors in Iraq.

A South African killed in Iraq two weeks ago once worked for a secret apartheid death squad known as the Civil Co-operation Bureau. The CCB specialised in assassinating civilians who sympathised with black liberation movements.

Gray Branfield, 55, was the latest South African casualty with a record of human rights abuse to have obtained lucrative employment with one of the many private security companies operating in Iraq. His decapitated and mutilated body was found after a gunfight between Shi'ite radicals and Ukrainian forces in Kut, 185km southeast of Baghdad.

Author Peter Stiff says Branfield spent most of his life working for various covert units and developed a fearsome reputation..."
more at link

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,9400583%5E2703,00.html

Hello from Germany,
Dirk

[toddzilla]

1. what a wonderful world..

isn't there another planet i can go to where this shit doesn't exist?

[LibertyorDeath]

2. Wonder if he believed in Karma.

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

3. Dirk, how has this prison torture thing been playing in Germany..

...just curious about how the German media is handling this, if at all?

[Dirk39]

7. It gets much airplay here...

I didn't expect the feedback. The pictures were shown in many newspapers on page 1 and it was a top issue in all TV news.
Even the relations to the intelligence were reported today.

Hi,
Dirk

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

4. Live by the sword eh? Whew. EOM

[htuttle]

5. ...had a 'fearsome reputation' for assassinating civilians in their sleep

Guess he wasn't used to people shooting back at him, huh?

:shrug:

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

6. Just desserts?

...His decapitated and mutilated body was found...

bad karma payback?

[Hubert Flottz]

8. Wow, great link Dirk!

This Iraqi thing just gets more strange by the minute! No wonder the war is costing so much money! We're hiring every hit man on earth and don't even suspect!

[Aidoneus]

9. Thank you, Sadr

That the occupyers felt the necessity to enlist such a character for their side manages to lower my opinion of them even more.