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Ayup, another example I can remember of is that swedish professor who went ahead and hired services of a PMC to extract her grad student and his family from Ira
by filoleg 3y ago
Ayup, another example I can remember of is that swedish professor who went ahead and hired services of a PMC to extract her grad student and his family from Iraq[0].
Background: the student vent to visit his family back in Iraq as his town was under an ISIS attack, which is how he ended up getting stuck there.
0. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/how-swedish-professor-helped-rescue-grad-student-isis-controlled-iraq-n947866 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/how-swedish-professor-hel...
- fragmede 3y agoThe untold stories from the security department of all the FAANGs from the invasion of Ukraine would take more movies than there are Marvel movies.
- mdekkers 3y agoThat wasn’t as exciting as you appear to think it was. I have family from Ukraine (now living with us) and worked with a lot of Ukrainians (and Russians) when the shooting war started. Most of my current contractors are displaced Ukrainians. There were no “Zero Dark Thirty” style extractions.