Here is another excerpt from the recently published book Funding the Enemy: How U.S. Taxpayers Bankroll the Taliban (Prometheus Books, 2012). The f...
David Isenberg | Posted 04.16.2012
Private military and security contractors frequently assert that they are so effective that they should be used in United Nations peacekeeping operations. It is a contention that has received greater attention in recent years. But is it true?
AP | LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 02.26.2012
NEW YORK — Three security contractors including two Americans were released by Iraqi Army forces Tuesday after they were held for more than two ...
Robert Greenwald | Posted 05.25.2011
The use of private contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan makes a few people very, very rich, but it's making the rest of us -- Americans and local civilians alike -- much less safe.
HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011
Three years ago this week, heavily armed Blackwater security contractors working for the State Department went on an unprovoked shooting spree in a Ba...
New York Times | THOM SHANKER and ERIC SCHMITT | Posted 05.25.2011
The military's intelligence network in Afghanistan, designed for identifying and tracking terrorists and insurgents, is increasingly focused on uncove...
AP / Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON - A Senate investigation accuses the Army of turning a blind eye when a Blackwater subsidiary hired violent drug users to help train the Af...
Posted 05.25.2011
"Blackwater Worldwide's legal woes haven't dimmed the company's prospects in Afghanistan, where it's a contender to be a key part of President Barack ...
AP | LARRY O'DELL | Posted 05.25.2011
NORFOLK, Va. — A former Blackwater contractor charged in the shooting deaths of two Afghans will be held in custody until his trial because his ...
ProPublica | Posted 05.25.2011
"We're spending a lot of money on these rifles, millions of dollars -- where do you think that money is going to?" [1] Ronald Boline, a former Triple ...
McClatchy | Nancy A. Youssef | Posted 05.25.2011
Private security contractors operating in Iraq could face Iraqi prosecution for acts committed when they supposedly had immunity from Iraqi law, U.S. ...
William Fisher | Posted 05.25.2011
As a new report forecasts that the 190,000 private contractors in Iraq and neighboring countries will cost U.S. taxpayers more than $100 billion by th...
Antiwar.com | William Fisher | Posted 05.25.2011
As human rights groups demanded the release of a report on a long-running investigation of the role of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in th...
Washington Post | Walter Pincus | Posted 05.25.2011
U.S. commanders in Iraq are for the first time seeking private contractors to form part of the small military teams that train and live with Iraqi mil...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
Iraqi soldiers detained two American security guards along with several other foreigners traveling Monday in a private security convoy after they open...
New York Times | JAMES GLANZ | Posted 05.25.2011
The Iraqi interior minister said Wednesday that he would authorize raids by his security forces on Western security firms to ensure that they were co...
David Isenberg | Posted 05.21.2012