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About two months ago, I met a Kenyan who’d spent 16 months in Iraq as a Sergeant. She described the place as a “terrorist haven”. I’m not sure if she’s going back. I didn’t ask, but next time I see her, I will ask. She was the third Kenyan I’d met who’d fought in Iraq. The other two, both young men, got out of the army after their deployments ended. One was a mechanic who said they received mortar shells in their base almost every night. The second one was a gunner in a tank. I don’t think any of them want to go back to this disaster. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2809146071164544948
Err, we ran a couple of articles on this, including a brilliant one by Stephen Wanyama on a classmate of his who is in the US Army. Funny thing that these Kenyans do not think of themselves as terrorists. I mean it is they that are going in there and invading another country, leaving Depleted Uranium about, genocides in Fallujah, torture and all around raping the country.
Maybe they are victims, maybe they want their papers and all of that. Maybe they should not be calling other people terrorists.
Kenyan Army/Navy military personel are joining KBR in the droves for civilian jobs in Iraq. I have heard that they are being paid $7000 per month. Guys are delisting just to go and work in Iraq.
Ssembonge:
Very interesting…I did not know that. Who is recruiting them from Kenya?
Ssembonge,
Hmmm, I wonder by my truth how that is at all different from terrorists signing up to join Al Qaeda on the basis of some silly bribe of 70 virgins up in heaven. Oh how tragic the Kenyan infatuation with the Anglo-Saxon.
50 odd years ago, it was us fighting off an occupying force, now we risk our lives for the loot and rape of a people that have done us no wrong.
The Kenyan drivers are risking their lives for money and that is understandable given the high unemployment rate in Kenya.