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Source: http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/10/12/wsas12.xml
Ex-SAS Flock to Iraq - and Earn 1,000 a Day as Bodyguards
(Telegraph-UK) Andrew Alderson - Hundreds of ex-servicemen, former members of the SAS and other elite British regiments, are earning up to £1,000 a day providing armed protection for Western businessmen in Baghdad, Basra, and other Iraqi cities. Many of the security men have been involved in shoot-outs with supporters of Saddam Hussein's deposed regime, bandits, and kidnappers who are targeting foreign businessmen.