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Boeing, Axa or Halliburton are not profitering the same ways from wars. This is why it has been thought to categorize War Profiters. And it'll be the theme of one of the next Broken Rifle articles. Having worked on it before knowing it would be an article, I was approached to write it... and I accepted.

In order to avoid all examples being the ones I've been campaigning against or the usual American Devils, I'd be grateful if everyone could send me examples with the category/ies they fit in, and how they do so. You can also add catagories or discuss the following ones.

Of course, all the examples may not get in the article but I think to make some kind of War Profiter Database which can be useful afterward in the campaign.

Please send your contribution to tikir@mocbzh.org

Categories I had thought of a while ago when we started discussing the campaign :

WAR PROFITERS TO BE CATEGORIZED

1 - Companies the war may be declared to increase their profits.

• Oil companies in Irak ?

2 - Companies profiting from any war (arm traders and traditional army suppliers : boots, uniforms, gas masks...).

• See list in most arms trade fair, DSEi and Eurosatory preferably.

3 - Companies profiting of the new faces of war (private armies -new kid of mercenaries - and security forces ; outsourced logistics from catering and laundry to tent hiring but also barracks management and financial advice and... Yes : Guantanamo cells ; see http://www.sodexhodefence.co.uk or Brown & Root websites for details ).

• Sodexho, Serco, Brown & Root (well Halliburton actually !)

4 - Companies profiting of the after war (building companies, networking companies : water, phone, electrics, oil...)

• Halliburton again but very often a French or German speciality (Well, with Kouchner being there members of parliament cried because the French governement hadn't been helping enough "our" industry compare to the Germans who took most of the market to rebuild the Balkans).

5 - Companies profiting of the profits of all those (banks... see AXA and FVV campaign).

6 - Companies profiting of the cost of war (Chevron and Halliburton with the Angolan oil, blood diamond companies) : "We buy your stuff, you get the money to buy your guns and war makes your stuff more expensive for us to sell it with more profits".

Of course, you can then get many companies involved according the categories (and some involved in different ones) but I guess two kinds are first choice targets :

• The ones having special strategies in order to profit from the war.
• The ones taking the cash and claiming they are clean (and even ethical !!).