[NYTr] US Company Prowls Mexico Looking for Iraq Mercenary Recruits

[nytr at olm.blythe-systems.com]

Granma Daily - July 23, 2007
http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/english/news/art52.html


Mexicans Targeted by US Company for Iraq

MEXICO, July 22.— The US company Dyn Crop International is recruiting
Mexicans in El Paso, Texas, to patrol Iraqi borders, reported Prensa
Latina on Sunday.

Advertisements in newspapers were taken out in Ciudad Juarez,
Chihuahua, near the Mexican-US border, offering salaries of up to
$11,250 a month ($135,000 a year), life insurance, a $25,000 bonus and
other benefits, states the report.

The company, which has the support of the US Defense Department in its
recruiting business, has sent 6,000 "contractors" to Bosnia,
Afghanistan, Haiti and Iraq.

Meanwhile, a general of the Iraqi Interior Ministry was shot dead
Sunday by members of the resistance in a Baghdad neighborhood of Ur,
reported DPA.

Likewise, the British Ministry of Defense said another of its troops
died after receiving wounds in a mortar attack against the Basra Palace.