US actually increasing personnel in Iraq
More contractors, fewer troops: The Pentagon's "quarterly report on contracting showed a 19 percent increase from the three previous months in the number of security guards in Iraq hired by the Defense Department.
http://snipurl.com/rppy2
Big U.S. Bases Are Part of Iraq, but a World Apart
The first people you encounter when driving up to an American base are not actually American. They are usually Ugandans, employed by a private security company, Triple Canopy, and those at Balad had enough authority to delay for five hours an American Air Force captain escorting an American reporter onto the base.
http://snipurl.com/rppya
From Information Clearing House
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=contractor
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bases
http://snipurl.com/rppy2
Big U.S. Bases Are Part of Iraq, but a World Apart
The first people you encounter when driving up to an American base are not actually American. They are usually Ugandans, employed by a private security company, Triple Canopy, and those at Balad had enough authority to delay for five hours an American Air Force captain escorting an American reporter onto the base.
http://snipurl.com/rppya
From Information Clearing House
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=contractor
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bases
rudkla - 10. Sep, 10:05
