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A French Adventurer's Saga

France's old cloak-and-dagger operatives are being put out to pasture as private military companies flourish in the midst of conflict and security firms move onto the legal mercenary market. [...]

Published on 02/06/2003 at 10:00 GMT Reading time 3 minutes

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