armed, in addition to the other stuff u request: I suggest you should get 4x LMG (7.62) and 2 x HMG (12.7mm 50 cal units) +spare barrels, I would suggest 3–4 units deployable on the roof 4. On the two vehicles you should weld a detachable weapons mount and ammo can on the back for the 2 x HMG (but don't actually mount them unless u need it in an emergency for the reasons we discussed before) 5. As a precaution I suggest u look to get a second house to act as a safe house that a minimum number of people know about should u need to evac (and u should stock it with food/water/, med kits, and comms gear)

He also hinted that he had even bigger plans for arming the opera- tion. He'd developed contacts in the former Soviet republics who could fly in heavier weapons from Ukraine. To Klaussen, it sounded like Le Roux was planning to break an arms embargo that had been internationally imposed on Somalia. “But at the end of the day we needed those guns,” he said.

All of this was just the preliminary security required before the real work of tuna fishing began. They were still importing the ba- sics: engines for the boats, construction equipment for the factory, graders to build an airstrip on the coast to fly out the fish. A work- ing operation was a long way off, but Klaussen felt like he had arrived, at the helm of an international development project in the most dangerous country on earth. “I had nothing, basically.’ No backup. Nothing whatsoever,” he said. “I just had to count on the guys that were working for me.” He knew the situation was ab- surdly precarious: a white man navigating a Somalia that existed in a perpetual state of political chaos, with memories of foreign meddling still fresh in the minds of a heavily armed population rightly prone to conspiracy theories. “You’ve got to give them the feeling that you trust them—and then you have to be able to make them trust you,” he said. “Because for them every white guy is an American. Every American is CIA.”

One hot evening that summer of 2009, Klaussen and his men