Awareness of ethical issues and their creative and effortful responses

(1) awareness of ethical issues and their creative and effortful responses to them, and (2) individual abilities to communicate their ideas clearly and precisely, in written form. Keep the length between one to two pages in an email response format.
For purposes of this activity, you are to role play that you are receiving the following email from your immediate supervisor in your organization.
“Dear consultant,
I would like to get your thoughts on a fairly urgent matter. As you know, we have an operation in West Africa that has been very profitable for us in spite of the high salaries that we have to pay our U.S. expatriates who work there. The higher salaries are necessary to compensate those employees for increased personal risk. We’ve kept that risk as low as possible by paying security fees to a local organization, Alshiboa, to provide protection. Unfortunately, there are rumors that Alshiboa has participated in some kidnapping and torture activities. One newspaper article referred to some of their activities as “death squads.” It’s clear that the locals don’t really like them and appear to be afraid of them. Quite frankly, we think our security payments provide an incentive for Alshiboa not to attack our operations themselves. There was an alert from the U.S. State Department just this week indicating that they were considering classifying Alshiboa as a terrorist organization. I’m not sure what to do here. We really need these profits to keep the rest of the company afloat; but if we don’t pay Alshiboa, I don’t think our operation (or our people) will survive there.
Can you please advise me on the following points:
• What ethical issues do you see for us in this scenario?
• What are some possible actions we could take?
• Who do you think would be affected by our action (or inaction) on this issue?
• What ethical rules, principles, or duties should we consider?
• Can you tell me both:
o What action you think would be most ethical for us; and
o What action you actually recommend taking.
I may need to pass these emails on to our CEO, and he’s a real stickler for good writing. If he doesn’t like the writing, he often disregards the message. Consequently, please make sure your reply concise, well-organized, and uses professional tone, spelling, grammar, and mechanics.”