Highway To Hell

Present-day Iraq is a crucible of torture and Islamic terrorism, swamped with insurgents pitched against the mighty US Army and its allies…but there’s another wetner army in Iraq that dwarfs the British contingent and is second only in size to the US Army itself.

It’s a disparate and anarchic multi-national force gathered from twenty or more countries numbering some 30,000, a mercenary army of men and a few women with guns for hire earning an average of $1,000 dollars a day. They are in Iraq to provide security for the businessmen, surveyors, building contractors, oil experts, aide workers and, of course, the TV crews who have flocked to the country to pick over the carcass of Saddam’s regime and help the country rebuild.