Executive Outcomes - The Real Money's in the Diamonds in the Oil

The government of Sierra Leone went to executive outcomes, begging for their help in suppressing a brutal insurgent group called the RUF. Executive outcomes was effectively a giant web of companies all more or less run by Simon Man and his buddy Buckingham with interest in mining, oil security, air transport, and everything imaginable. The mercenaries are just a way to get at the diamonds in the oil; they didn't actually achieve any long term security for the region.