An AP story talks about mercenary pork in Arkansas, Mike Huckabee must be proud.
Arkansas, at Marion.
"Downtown Fallujah is coming to Arkansas."
Is that a hard sale one liner? Mass murder marketing?
"Nine blocks off the war-ravaged city's bazaar, traffic circle, office buildings, and schools are being built among cotton,rice, and soybean fields."
Remeber, Arkansas was the state that housed Japanese internment camps during Dubya Dubya 2.
"Olive Group, a British firm that supplies
personnel and combat training for armies and corporations, plans to open three blocks this summer."
But don't let British mercenary training urban assault in North America be the only slice of pie here.
"A similar urban-combat operation, run by Direct Action Resource Center, has a mock Mogadishu in Noth Little Rock. Students rappel from a helicopter perched on a 40-foot stanchion and work through a maze of concrete huts and alleys, shooting at targets and blowing open doors."
Great! Let's take the kids to practice some genocide, honey!
"Direct Action opened the 740-acre center in 1996 and gets nearly allits busienss fromt he military and other federal agencies."
Wow, and you thought that the asian growth fund for your 401 had some return in it there, professor. Heh.
'"It's been a major growth industry since 9/11'" founder Richard Mason says.'
Buy , sell, or hold?
"Private contractors like Olive and Direct Action are making money in supplementing military training for the war on terrorism.
"In a... review, the GAO found founnd that 22 contracts last year were worth more than $766 million but the GAO said the data on security costs were incomplete."
"Alan Brosnan, a former New Zealand Army assault group commander, founded the Marion training center 15 years ago as the Tacticval Explosive Entry School. The center occupied 16 acres and trained SWAT teams and military special operations personnel when Olive bought it last fall."
"Brosnan is overseeing the transformation of 700 acres into "Fallujah" and Olive is in negotiations for the purchase of another 300 acres."
Sounds like an eminent domain case.
'The frames of bulletproof "shoot houses," firing ranges and other structures are rising on the site. On a two-mile track, drivers will learn to shoot guns out car windows, ram enemy vehicles and doge obstacles such as simulated rocket-propelled grenades and iprovised explosive devices."
Yeah just pretend there's an Italian journalist in the car, and fire away...
"We've got to give them what they're going to experience overseas. There's no pretending," Brosnan says.
You hear that? Your kids have got to experience what they're about to fight in./ Sounds like we have plans on fighting a larger urban war than Iraq. Futures on Iran stocks and insurance underwriters dropping today? He was referring to merc training or in broader terms?
"The bullets whizzing in the mock city will be real, as will the explosions."
Are those real bullets or Sears(tm) bullets?
'But Brosnan says not to worry. "We don't set up mininukes here. this is small, surgical stuff."
Nice to know that mininuke tactics are a common conversation point for merc trainers on American soil.
"Gary Laing, vice president of operations, says the urban-training villages are in demand partly because the military's training facilities are stretched to capacity."
Hey we have build a village in order to destroy it.
"Olive Group appoints new Department Head" 'Olive Group announces the appointment of Richard Knowlton as Senior Vice President and Head of A2, its new risk analysis and assessment department. The launch of the new department, and therecent announcement of its partnership with Assynt Associates, demonstrates the dynamic approach
Olive Group is taking to the provision of risk analysis and assessment services to their clients.'
Hil & Knowlton also ran the PR staff for the Britihs embassy for the date of the letterhead stamp for the Niger forgery that was the causus belli for the war in Iraq.
Hill & Knowlton runs an office in the same capacvity for the UK embassy in Prague, and has offices in vatican City and Rome where the Niger forgery was being shopped.