I doubt the late Mr. Sawyer was deliberately attempting to import Ebola to the US.
As to why work for a foreign government? It pays pretty damned good, thank you very much. I’ve done work for a few; the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Defense , the Italian Ministry of Culture and others. It’s not a bad freelancing scheme, all things considered, and you get to travel - and you get paid for it too.
I’m not complaining.
Agree. He was one of the good guys, it seems, a responsible family man.
I knew a young man who worked in Saudi for three years back when that was safe. . And I've met a lot of fellows on planes coming out of Asian countries…oil company employees, etc., who were having fun traveling and making big bucks.
BUT. Ebola is one ferocious disease, if it gets out of Africa it's going to put a damper on overseas employment. And pleasure travel. What are the airlines doing to sterilize those planes?
One of the things ebola does is affect the victim’s mental state. If he was symptomatic, he was already likely showing mental effects.
I doubt he was trying to kill his wife and daughters.