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Blackwater Guards Killed 16 as US Touted Progress
http://www.commondreams.or g/archive/2007/09/28/4164/ -------- Hired Gun Fetish Paul Krugman writes for The New York Times: "yes, the so-called private security contractors are mercenaries. They're heavily... ...
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... ...
Blackwater, Oil and the Colonial Enterprise
By John Nichols The private military contractor's war-for-profit program, which has been so brilliantly exposed by Jeremy Scahill, may finally get a measure of the official scrutiny it merits as the... ...
Can Iraq (or Anyone) Hold Blackwater Accountable for Killing Iraqi Civilians?
http://www.democracynow.or g/article.pl?sid=07/09/18/ 140201 -------- The Real News Network Alert New Item: Will Blackwater be expelled from Iraq? After recent alleged killings of civilians by Blackwater... ...
US contractors in Iraq outnumber US troops
MSNBC 09/19/07 The United States has assembled an imposing industrial army in Iraq larger than its uniformed fighting force and responsible for a such a broad swath of responsibilities the military might... ...
Defense Dept. pays $1B to outside analysts
The Defense Department is paying private contractors more than $1 billion in more than 30 separate contracts to collect and analyze intelligence for the four military services and its own Defense Intelligence... ...
Secrecy, Torture, Religious Zeal Distinguish Mercenaries
Paul Nyden, in an OP-ED for the West Virginia Gazette, writes: "The use of contractors, and their secrecy, shifts more and more authority from Congress to the White House, which makes its own decisions... ...
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... ...