Guns For Hire (Afghanistan)
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Documentary about the secretive world of private military companies.
Included is a unique interview in Kabul’s Polecharki jail with the infamous American prisoner Jack Idema – an ex Marine Special Forces soldier who turned rouge.
Jack was hunting for Bin Laden in the hope of winning the 2 million dollars U.S. award offered for Bin Laden’s head by the Bush Administration.
Eventually, Afghan authorities arrested Idema on charges of kidnapping people and interrogating them in a private prison.
With their existing armies overstretched, Britain and America rely heavily on mercenary forces. In Guns For Hire: Afghanistan, former war reporter Sam Kiley investigates the shadowy world of the modern soldier of fortune.
These men are performing an honorable job...protecting Westerners from getting killed, while going from point A to B. The client, a human being that they're protecting, could be someone who is helping to benefit Afghanistan. The "hired guns" are not lining up Afghans+executing them like ISIS does/did in Iraq. If they fear for their lives+run a car full of good Afghans off the road, that doesn’t make them horrible men. Until they get better with experience, who else is willing to do the job they do?
I am 24 years old and would like to start doing this sort of work?
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how can you join? first head must be removed from ass!! once that's cleared up you might just realize that the foreign legion has real history and honor!! if you want to fight go the the legion you get a new life if you life through your time enlisted with them if your a felon in your country after you come out not in a box like many do ! you will get everything fresh like you got born with a new life ahead of you your past is wiped clean and you are given an EU passport of french origin !! papers everything finger p[prints all changed so you get a second chance at doing life better then you did in your youth !!
how can you join? lol maybe in another life mate.
It depends of what you did during this one.
If you are a soldier, a member of special forces, a policeman etc. Got some skils with guns and fight. You need to have those skils in high standards - they will not learn you those kind of things - this is a bussines not a school.
If you have friends that can recomend you for that kind of companies (like blackwater)
And most important - are you ready to die for money?
how can join you guys
how can i be able to apply to be a private security. in afganistan
Great documentary, managing to get it all in such a short amount of time. The footage of Idema is priceless. He is the most real figure in the film. Though his initial jump into Afghanistan seems misguided, it seems a good lesson in the end, that he was abandoned by the US Gov't, as would be the case were any subject to misbehave and go rogue. But the corruption that war begets is evidenced in the circumstances of his imprisonment. Is he really imprisoned?, satellite TV and internet, plush couches and alcohol.
At least he seems to be enjoying and appreciating the male paradise of the Afghani male dominated system. As for the ignorant and aging, bored, mid life crisis male mercenaries, refugees from the West's corporate upbringing, well they are just incapable of growing out of adolescence. They are motivated solely by money and the prospect of killing another human or being killed as they have outlived their own usefulness to the planet and their species. A bunch of ignorant apes with guns, the worst excuse for a human being, misguided folly. And the guy who prays not be killed for his 3 yr old daughter's sake, feeling that his going to kill poor people 10,000 mls from his country of origin, he is willfully and arrogantly, deluded. He does not even question the poverty he sees all around him, the distance he is from his comparatively,'space aged', country of origin, nor why anyone would want to kill him while he is invading their country by his presence.
I was in Afghanistan before the 30 years of war wrought by the Soviets and now the Americans, and though women were oppressed then, it was possible that Afghanistan would have come into a state of egalitarian modernity had they been left on their own without the bombs dropped by the USA. Mazari Sharif was a free city in those days, women were free to take education and to walk around uncovered. This has all gone back to the dark ages now, thanks to the poison of the 'testosterone wars'.
The soldiers of misfortune are allowed by the US Gov't to tote guns in unaccountability, living off the US tax payers enslaved to their lack of understanding and financing the biggest, most illegal boondoggle since Viet Nam. While the 'stuck in adolescence' Generals apologize for mistakes made, and then continue the same insane policy of wasting billions of dollars on nothing.
Thanks to the people who made this insightful well done doc. for staying on message.
Brilliant film, well done for a subject that would seem to need more time. The interview with the abandoned American was excellant because he seemed to have the same craziness of the other American who prayed and felt that his god wanted him to be 10,000 miles away from the US continent in the Himalaya/Hindu Kush killing poor people in order to defend the US empire. What hogwash! But at least the 'imprisoned' Am. was far more real and was a true adventurer who got into the culture he was in. Albeit, after being caught for murder and mayhem. These mercenary guys really do have the 'Peter-Pan' syndrome. They are as ignorant and adolescent in their thinking as a 13 year old, but they are old men gone to kill poor people and to f*** enslaved women for a thrill. They are a big part of the problem with the human species. All around them is the death and destruction of culture and the earth that they have wrought upon the rest of us but they walk through it as blind men or perhaps more appropriately, as ignorant apes who walk upright. I was in Afghanistan before the Soviet war on Afghanistan. As an intact culture, though extremely oppressive to women, at least there was a possibility that they would progress into a modern country then. Women in Mazari Sharif were liberated then, and this would likely have occurred in all of Afghanistan had 30 years of war by the Soviets and then the Americans not intervened. The way to an egalitarian society is not through war, profiteering and the destruction of families and then the culture itself. The US and European war is solely for profit and the adolescent needs of the generals and the petty mercenaries from the West who will never grow up, who choose to remain ignorant to keep themselves from feeling the violent effect that they are having on the whole of the planet. What they do over there impacts the whole planet. They are involved in the destruction of these cultures which will hasten the destruction of their own. It is evidenced already in the loss of their own humanity, their inability to feel, where money is their primary motivation, and their ultimate effect is the destruction of everything living.
The end of the movie is great! Really cool!
Man, that Idema guy is like a modern-day Lawrence of Arabia, lol(z) ;p :)) !!!
"Canadian #22
Why are so many americans so dumb, ignorant and evil ?
so ******, honestly, if this is what democracy and capitlaism leads to…. its no good."
I don't know. Last time I checked, Canada also has democracy and capitalism. So is that why you cannot spell and capitalize nouns properly? Stupid is as stupid does.
pulunco,
yeah, thanks, agreed.
As for democracy in this region, it has been a battlefield of differing regimes for millennia. The peoples there tend to identify with family & tribe, less with politicians. Iraq as such did not exist until Britain drew its boundaries after WWI, on the expert advice of oilman Calouste Gulbenkian. Gulbenkian knew where the best/most oil was. His reward was 5% of all extracted oil, which made him the richest man in the world. The French missed out.
During WWII, there was a failed nationalist uprising against British rule. Independence came later, but always subject to the interference & corruption of the big oil corps. Eg., the popular nationalist Kassem regime was overthrown by the CIA in 1963. The reason was oil. Kassem had helped set up OPEC to get better prices for Arab countries. Kassem & hundreds of supporters were tortured & murdered. Hooray for democracy.
Coastal Iraq had some very ancient cultures, but little in common with the desert peoples. All the ingredients for a grand, ex-colonialist screw-up are found in this poor country. God give them some peace. OGT
Whats wrong is that he said the US is rightly over there (Iraq). The US has killed enough people for no reason. Weapons of mass destruction never did exist. Too many people have been killed on both sides. For what, there is no democracy there now and the US can't impose it.
That war is making money for Halliburton and other companies, nothing more. I respect the people in the military but the war is serving the big American companies and nothing more.
Pulunco,
who is, what is wrong? OGT
MS
Sorry buddy but you are wrong.
Freedom,
things change in the world when people's minds change. Here, in a very small way, we are trying to upgrade their thinking, I hope. OGT
OGT and realsense give up already? before even trying anything?
Well opposing is meaningless with no actions. The vietnam war was like david vs goliarth. Under equip, poorly train vietcong and north vietnamese army defeated the world superpower. Do you know why? Because the North vietnamese were willing to fight to the end with whatever means or tactic. "Nationism" the Vietnamese people started to help the vietcong against the US because they were sick to death getting push around by foreign powers for centuries the Chinese, the French, the Jap ect. Now if you people don't like the way things are, why sitting doing nothing? you see its not because you can't beat them just how far are you willing to go in taking back your country and liberty, war is dirty doesn't matter where the fight is or who is with, with guns or no guns.
It's ROGUE - not rouge..turned red? pink?...
realsense,
amen to that; things are looking bad. I can't quite believe how bad. Now the fat rats want the allies to fight Iran for Israel? Yes, I'm very much afraid they are serious. OGT
Old Git Tom
Well said, it aches me to watch young lives wasted in a banker's war. But what can we do, exposing these rascal has not brought any change. In fact it has emboldened them, the mainstream media belongs to them, they print the money and congress bows to their demands, I am afraid all that is left for us to do is to watch powerlessly as they loot and destroy the world.
realsense,
no hard feelings from this end for 3rdinfantry. It is a psychological necessity for soldiers to feel they are fighting for a just cause. If they start to doubt, they can start to make mistakes. I do not want to undermine anyone's morale. I absolutely don't want to contribute to somebody's bad luck. I want to see them all home safe.
On the other hand, something nasty should happen to the cynical rats in high places who start wars for profit & power, their lying mouths full of peace & sweet reason. OGT
3rdinfantry,
An intellectual debate requires civility and mutual respect, OGT deserves respect, because of the way he presents his views. Insults just show how limited you are in reasoning and presenting facts, and that goes to all who think insulting others make their argument credible. We all know not every one likes peace, if you are one of those just say you prefer war to peace noone will arrest you for that. The principles of justice and fairness requires that force be used only as a means of self-defence. Can you 3rdinfantry prove that current American military action in the middleeast is a matter of selfdefence and not the pathetic "national security" rhetoric which tyrannical states use to assuage their lust for power? The day martial law is declared in the US maybe you will start seeing clearly, or maybe you are just one of those individuals whose mind does not belong to him anymore.
3rdinfantry,
Saddam Hussein played cat & mouse with UN inspection teams for years. But they did inspect, & found no WMDs. Scientist David Kelly was one expert. He was unwise enuf to tell a journalist as much. The UK gov was not pleased. He was found dead.
And maybe Israel would let UN inspectors look over its nuke industry? No chance, of course, & no squawks from the West.
Armies have been marching all over the Middle East for over 3 thousand years - pretty much why it's mostly scrub & desert. Neither peace nor democracy can be exported.
As to lies, IISS London report said about 50 Al Quaida in Afghan. There is no global AQ. That's a product of Bush II's propaganda machine. The present turkey, Obama, is sending more troops so he can end the war & pull out more troops! Sure, as Big Brother said in George Orwell's 1984, "War is peace, peace is war".
Now he's going to invade Iran? If he really wanted peace, he would stop sending US arms & money to support Israel. Then Israel would be forced to do a peace deal with the Palestinians. End of 'Moslem' problem.
Good luck, watch out, & get back fat & sassy. OGT
3rdinfantry,
story One was Iraq had WMDs - a lie. Story Two was, Iraq was training Al Quaida. Very unlikely, since Saddam Hussein saw them as power rivals. He pretty much saw everyone else in the Middle East as enemies, & killed off whoever he could. So this is likely another lie.
The essence of a soldier's job is to kill the enemy. Soldiers don't start wars, & don't get to choose which ones to fight in. They deserve our respect for doing what our governments tell them to do - dirty, dangerous, damaging work for which there is no adequate reward.
I am not a hippy. I hope you get/got home in one piece. If wars did any good, why are there so many? OGT