Contractors beyond the law in Iraq
Lincoln Journal Star
08/12/07
There are now nearly as many private contractors in Iraq as there are U.S. soldiers — and about half of them are private security guards equipped with automatic weapons, body armor, helicopters and bullet-proof trucks. They operate with little or no supervision, accountable only to the firms employing them. And as the country has plummeted toward anarchy and civil war, this private army has been accused of indiscriminately firing at American and Iraqi troops and of shooting to death an unknown number of Iraqi citizens who got too close to their heavily armed convoys...
http://tinyurl.com/2lun6k
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=contractors
08/12/07
There are now nearly as many private contractors in Iraq as there are U.S. soldiers — and about half of them are private security guards equipped with automatic weapons, body armor, helicopters and bullet-proof trucks. They operate with little or no supervision, accountable only to the firms employing them. And as the country has plummeted toward anarchy and civil war, this private army has been accused of indiscriminately firing at American and Iraqi troops and of shooting to death an unknown number of Iraqi citizens who got too close to their heavily armed convoys...
http://tinyurl.com/2lun6k
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=contractors
rudkla - 13. Aug, 12:05
