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Old 25th Jun 2008, 17:43
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soggyboxers
 
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SAS,

Whilst you're quite possibly right about the knowledge of where we live, we don't wear epaulettes to work and company vehicles these days carry no company markings. We have some leeway in variations of route and timings and most companies have armed escort vehicles.

The thing about the pics is valid as many camps and estates have differing degrees of security, some including sangars with automatic weapons and varying numbers of armed security personnel along with other measures best not discussed on an open forum.

If they want you specifically, they can probably get you, but if they just want any oyibo they may well prefer to go for one less well protected to save becoming casualties themselves. The weaker are more likely to become casualties in reality. Naturally they'll attack supposedly well defended oil company locations in the swamp because that gives maximum publicity with maximum economic damage to the government. It's one of the risks one accepts to get the big bucks - not
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