From Guns to NGOs: Emerald Solutions’ Perfect Timing to Rebuild Syria—One Private Contract at a Time

* Full news and all the source links: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-30th-april-2025
- UK Column podcast: Syria Podcast—Episode 7
- Emerald Solutions Group (Instagram): Emerald Syria Limited is now officially licensed and fully compliant to support media, film, documentaries, commercial projects, reconstruction, oil & gas, and NGOs in Syria
- Al-Estiklal English: 'Emerald': UAE Group Launches Security Firms in Syria After Assad's Fall
- LinkedIn: Simon Roughton - Managing Director Emerald Solutions Iraq, Syria and Lebanon
- The Guardian (2016): UK firm 'employed former child soldiers' as mercenaries in Iraq
- Wkipedia: P. W. Singer (Peter Warren Singer)
- NPR (2007): U.K. Firm Awarded Largest Iraq Security Contract
- World Socialist Web Site (1999): Britain: Inquiry attacks Blair government over "arms-to-Africa" scandal
- The Guardian (1999): Blair challenged on arms supplies for African rebels
- Grey Dynamics (2023): Aegis Defence Services: From Britain to Iraq
- Rest Less: Lieutenant Colonel Tim Spicer OBE on his book about the man who inspired 007
- Terry Aspinall: Chronology Of Sierra Leone: How Diamonds Fuelled The Conflict