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slash audio. Texas Monthly. By his own account, Galad Pallad was a man who handled problems.

He moved to the U.S. from Israel in 1999.

Back in his homeland, Gil had served three years as a tank commander in the army.

He trained alongside the Special Forces, though once he was in the U.S. he liked to tell people

he'd been, and the Israeli Special Forces, a little misleading, but he

tended to get more jobs that way. In the States, he worked in private security,

boasting that he'd negotiated hostage releases and extortion cases.

His clients, he said, included a Russian billionaire and the Mexican government.

He also worked as a bodyguard in Los Angeles, including a multi-year stint with Charlie Sheen.

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