they were banned from working in Iraq.
yet they went and like many other workers took up legal arms to guard Westerners.
They were mercenaries.
& now they are dead.
(They were kidnapped on Aug 23 2004)
But your usual trusted news sources didn't want to attract attention to the amount of "additional security personel" employed "legally" or "illegally" in Iraq.
http://www.turkishpress.com/turkishpress/news.asp?ID=25006
and the news is -
they are now dead.
http://diplomatie.fr/actu/article.asp?ART=44130