Editing Tim Spicer (section)

===Aegis Defence Services===
Spicer was Chief Executive of [[Aegis Defence Services]], a PMC based in London, until replaced by [[Major General]] [[Graham Binns]] in 2010. The chairman of the Aegis board of directors is former [[Minister of State for the Armed Forces|Defence minister]], [[Nicholas Soames]] [[Member of Parliament|MP]].<ref>[http://www.aegisworld.com/index.php/new2/about-us-2/management2Aegis Defence Services website]{{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> The Board of Directors include: General [[Roger Wheeler (British Army officer)|Sir Roger Wheeler]], [[Chief of the General Staff (United Kingdom)|Chief of the General Staff]]; [[Paul Boateng]], former Labour Minister and ex-High Commissioner to South Africa<ref>{{cite web|date=8 November 2009 |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6908050.ece|archive-url=https://archive.today/20091201180439/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6908050.ece|url-status=dead|archive-date=1 December 2009|title=Lobbying row as ex-minister Paul Boateng lands defence firm job|work=The Times|location=UK|accessdate=17 May 2010|last=Oliver |first=Jonathan }}</ref> and [[John Birch (diplomat)|Sir John Birch]], former British deputy ambassador to the [[United Nations]].

In October 2004, Aegis won a $293&nbsp;million three-year contract in [[Iraq]] outsourcing, among other things, intelligence for the [[U.S. Army]].<ref>{{cite web|date=23 October 2005|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/article578141.ece|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202013933/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/article578141.ece|url-status=dead|archive-date=2 December 2008|title=Making a killing|publisher=pub|accessdate=14 August 2007|last=Jon Swain}}</ref><ref name="washingtonpost">{{cite news|date=1 July 2007 |url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/30/AR2007063001075_pf.html|title=In Iraq, a Private Realm of Intelligence-Gathering|newspaper=The Washington Post|accessdate =14 August 2007|last=Steve Fainaru and Alec Klein}}</ref>

{{quote|Spicer is effectively in charge of the [[Private military company#Iraq|second largest military force in Iraq]] – some 20,000 private soldiers. Just don't call him a [[mercenary]].|Stephen Armstrong [[The Guardian|''Guardian'' journalist]]<ref name="guardian">{{cite web|date=20 May 2006|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/story/0,,1779424,00.html|title=The enforcer|work=The Guardian|location=UK|accessdate=14 August 2007|last=Stephen Armstrong}}</ref>}}