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Half-price Colombian fighters offered for Iraq

A US company operating out of Ecuador says it has signed up about 1,000
Colombian police and military staff to work as hired guns in Iraq, for less than
half of their US counterparts' salaries.
Colombians "have been fighting
terrorists for the past 41 years and are experts in their respective areas" such
as explosives and guerrilla warfare, Epi Security and Investigation says on its
website, iraqijobcenter.com.
The company based in the Ecuadoran city of
Manta is run by American Jeffrey Shippy, who is in Baghdad, according to his
Ecuadoran wife.
He works out of his home not far from the Manta air base
Washington rented from the Ecuadoran Air Force to relocate some of the troops
and planes it used to have in Panama.
The Colombian daily El Tiempo reported
Friday that the Colombians would be paid $US2,500 to $US5,000 a month, roughly
half what their US and British counterparts earn.