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Waxman: Blackwater Cost-Cutting to Blame for 2004 Fallujah Ambush
Spencer Ackerman for TPM Muckraker reports that "right on the heels of a Brookings Institution report detailing the problems private military companies create for counterinsurgency efforts in Iraq, Representative... ...
Senior Military Official: "It May Be Worse Than Abu Ghraib"
Sudarsan Raghavan and Thomas E. Ricks report for The Washington Post, "A confrontation between the US military and the State Department is unfolding over the involvement of Blackwater USA in the shooting... ...
Why failure is the new face of success
It may have been the military that invaded but, with Iraq completely dismantled, the reconstruction was to be the preserve of US corporations ... Thus was born 'disaster capitalism', where oil companies... ...
Flush with Profits: Military Contractors See a World of Business Opportunities
With almost no congressional oversight and even less public awareness, the Bush administration has more than doubled the size of the U.S. occupation through the use of private war companies. http://www.alt ernet.org/audits/59571/ From... ...
The Mercenary Revolution: Flush With Profits From the Iraq War
A Very Private War http://www.commondream s.org/archive/2007/08/01/2 896/ -------- The Mercenary Revolution: Flush With Profits From the Iraq War Jeremy Scahill, of the Indypendent, reports: "With almost... ...
Bribery Network to Bloat War Costs Is Alleged
At the core of the case is a contract that KBR, previously known as Kellogg, Brown & Root, won before the war to supply the American military with food, fuel, housing and other necessities. The value... ...
Mercenaries face mounting losses
Companies, funded by billions of dollars in U.S. military and State Department contracts, are fighting insurgents on a widening scale in Iraq, enduring daily attacks, returning fire and taking hundreds... ...
Iraq Contractors Face Growing Parallel War
Private security companies, funded by billions of dollars in US military and State Department contracts, are fighting insurgents on a widening scale in Iraq, enduring daily attacks, returning fire and... ...
Manufacturing Consent For War With Iran
U.S. troops detain four insurgents smuggling Iranian weapons in Baghdad The detainees are believed to be members of a "secret cell terrorist network known for facilitating the transport of weapons and... ...
Who Will Stop the US Shadow Army in Iraq?
Jeremy Scahill writes: "The 145,000 active duty US forces are nearly matched by occupation personnel that currently come from companies like Blackwater USA and the former Halliburton subsidiary KBR, which... ...