The Bogota daily from La EPI Web Site The US company Epi Security & Investigation says it has hired some 1,000 Colombian military and police veterans to work as mercenaries for the US occupation in Iraq. Epi is operating from a house near a US air base in … Continue reading ![](\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/pupheroin.jpg\")
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\n US company Epi Security & Investigation<\/a> says
\n it has hired some 1,000 Colombian military and police veterans to work
\n as mercenaries for the US occupation in Iraq. Epi is operating from a
\n house near a US air base in the Ecuadoran
\n city of Manta<\/a>. <\/p>\n
\n El Tiempo reported on Aug. 12 that the Colombian mercenaries receive
\n salaries of between $2,500 and $5,000 a month–less than half the salary
\n charged by their US counterparts. Most of the mercenaries are retired
\n military officers or police agents who were trained by the US military
\n and are accustomed to working with US troops.<\/p>\n
\n Jornada <\/a>of Mexico<\/p>\n
\n Iraqi Job Center<\/a>– featuring "Your career
\n in Iraq starts here"<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"