[news] Global security firms fill in as private armies

[Resist!ca]

The boom in Iraq is just the tip of the iceberg for the $100 billion-a- year 
industry, which experts say has been the fastest-growing sector of the global 
economy during the past decade. From oil companies in the African hinterland to 
heads of state in Haiti and Afghanistan to international aid agencies in 
hotspots around the world, the difference between life and death is decided by 
private guns for hire. Also, major security firms are quietly lobbying the U.S. 
government and the United Nations to privatize peacekeeping operations.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/3/28/184116/788