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Erinys set up a Joint Venture with Nour USA Ltd.. Nour's founder is Abul Huda Farouki, awealthy Jordanian-American who lives in northern Virginia and whose companies have doneextensive construction work for the Pentagon.Farouki's businesses established $12 million of loans from the Petra International BankingCorporation in the 1980s, which was managed at the time by Ahmed Chalabi’s nephew,Mohammed Chalabi. The Jordanian government says this was part of a massive embezzlementscheme involving Chalabi4 and a bank he owned in Jordan.A founding partner and the director of Erinys Iraq is Faisal Dhaghistani. Faisal is the son ofTamara Daghistani, who played a large role in the development of Ahmed Chalabi's IraqiNational Congress.The firm's counsel in Baghdad has been Chalabi's nephew, Salem Chalabi.Many among the 14,000 guards recruited by Erinys to protect the oil infrastructure came directlyfrom the Iraqi Free Forces, a militia that had been loyal to Chalabi's movement.”Following is an up-to-date State Department list 5 of 27 further known security firms working inIraq:AD Consultancy (which firm?) (UK)AKE Ltd (UK)BAGHDAD FIRE AND SECURITY (IRAQ)ARMOR GROUP (in Mosul, Baghdad, Basra) (UK)CONTROL RISKS GROUP (Baghdad) (UK)CUSTER BATTLES (now being investigated) (US)DEHDARI GENERAL TRADING & CONTRACTING EST.(KUWAIT)DILIGENCE MIDDLE EAST (US)GENRIC (outside Basra) (UK)GLOBAL MIDDLE EAST RISK STRATEGIES (originally a firm based in UK, known asGlobal Risk Strategies) (Dubai,UAE)GROUP 4 FALCK A/S (INDIA)HENDERSON RISK LTD (UK)HILL AND ASSOCIATES (HONG KONG)ICP (employees are only either former British and US Special Forces or Elite Forces personnel.(UK)ISI (Baghdad Conference Palace: (“the only security company to provide 24 hour Iraqi securityguards to the CPA "Green Zone". All guards are trained by the U.S. army … ISI's seniormanagement includes experienced military personnel mostly ex-special forces from both the USand UK.”) (IRAQ)METEORIC TACTICAL SOLUTIONS (S. AFRICA)MEYER & ASSOCIATES, (TEXAS, US)OLIVE SECURITY LTD (UK)OPTIMAL SOLUTION SERVICES (AUSTRALIA)OVERSEAS SECURITY AND STRATEGIC INFORMATION, INC/SAFENET-IRAQ (US)156
RAMOPS RISK MANAGEMENT GROUP (comprised of US special operations and militaryintelligence professionals.) (US)SOG-SMG INC. (US)SUMER INTERNATIONAL SECURITY (trained by DYNCORP. INT; (IRAQ)TOR INTERNATIONAL (former SAS and Special Forces staff) (UK)TRIPLE CANOPY (more than 20 years in the most elite military Special Operations units) (US)UNITY RESOURCES GROUP (Middle East) LLC. (security professionals drawn from theSpecial Forces and Police SWAT communities of the United States, United Kingdom, Australia,New Zealand and Europe. (Dubai, UAE)WADE-BOYD & ASSOCIATES (US)Where is training for the Facilities Protection Service ("death squads"?) taking place?• Basra Palace (UK)“19/5 Battery: “Maj. A. J. Layden is responsible for the Facilities Protection Service (FPS). TheBattery oversees a wide range of activities; from working with the border guards away to the eastof Basra, to running training courses for the FPS. Sgt Duncan’s multiple (sic) is one that hasbeen tasked with this FPS training task. He and his team have already run four five-day courseswhich include foot drill, weapon handling, basic first aid and vehicle check point drills. The aimthroughout each course is to raise confidence amongst the men of the FPS in basic standards andencourage good practice. At the end of each course, the top students have been selected toreceive further instruction to educate them how to lead future courses. Sgt Duncan and his teamare now reaping the rewards of their hard work with Iraqi FPS staff leading the most recentcourse under their guidance. “ (There is no date on this communication.)• Baghdad, Al Rashid districtCol. Jon Brockman said (21.01.04) “that those achievements include recruiting, training,equipping and employing 2,900 Iraqis as Facility Protection Services guards.”• MEK Compound / FOB Mercury / Camp MercuryA photo tour of Camp Mercury can be seen here. The photo of the prisoner compound has beendeleted.Global Security says: “Forward Operating Base [FOB] Mercury is an abandoned Iraqi militarybase and a former Iranian terrorist training camp, located midway between Baghdad andFallujah.”“TF 1-504 operates out of FOB Mercury. They are responsible for several towns west ofBaghdad, including the external security of the largest prison and detention facility in Iraq. TF 1-504 recently started training Iraqi Facility Protection Service guards. This is a program to trainand equip Iraqis so they can begin guarding their own critical facilities, such as police stations,food warehouses, oil storage depots, etc. … A class of twenty-five Iraqis completed the FacilitiesProtection Force (FPS) program 11 October 2003 at Forward Operating Base Mercury. The157
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