Tim Spicer's License to Kill Iraqi Motorists

It should come as no surprise murderous yahoos working for Aegis Defense Services randomly shoot up innocent Iraqis, as a video currently posted on the Prison Planet site reveals. "The video has sparked concern that private security companies, which are not subject to any form of regulation either in Britain or in Iraq, could be responsible for the deaths of hundreds of innocent Iraqis," reports the London Telegraph.

Aegis is run by a former British soldier and a one-time member of the Scots Guards, Tim Spicer, who made a sum of money violating a UN arms embargo in Sierra Leone and touching off a coup in Papua New Guinea. Spicer is apparently so good at what he does--apparently including randomly murdering Iraqis--the Pentagon awarded him a $293 million contract to have his hired thugs act as bodyguards (or maybe we should call them what they are--spree killers).

Spicer has a bad habit of rubbing elbows with cutthroat psychopaths. For instance, in Belfast in 1992, two men under Spicer's command killed an unarmed teenager and father of two children, Peter Mc Bride. Mark Wright and James Fisher were charged with the murder and sentenced to life, but thanks to campaign led by the Daily Mail and with help from the British Ministry of Defense, the men were released after serving three years (see Brief introduction to the case of Peter McBride September 1992 - April 2005 and Barry McCaffrey reporting for the Irish News). A British Army review board eventually reinstated Wright and Fisher, probably because they really have no problem with their soldiers killing unarmed Irish civilians.

According to one Dr. Alexander von Paleske, head of the department of oncology at the Princess Marina Hospital in Gaborone, Botswana, Spicer "worked with Anthony Buckingham, one of Britain's wealthiest men, in a company called Sandline," according to Ray O’Hanlon of the Irish Echo. "Buckingham's worldwide business dealings included an oil deal with the now unemployed Saddam Hussein," von Paleske wrote for the Zimbabwe newspaper the Standard last year. As it turns out, Spicer worked with Buckingham in a company called Sandline, a PMC, or "Private Military Company," and Sandline was neck-deep in the coup in Papua New Guinea in 1997.