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My Friend's Son Killed in Iraq: By Contractors and U.S. Agency?

Greg Mitchell | Posted May 4, 2008 | Politics

Read More: Bush, Defense Contractors, George W. Bush, Iraq Deaths, Iraq War, Kbr, Private Security Contractors, Shower Electrocution, Troops, Veterans, War, Warwire
Greg Mitchell

Last night, I was surprised and happy to find a photograph of my friend Cheryl Harris at the top of the New York Times' web site. She was hugging her young son, Ryan Maseth, an Army sergeant who was dressed in his uniform and cap. The were both smiling broadly....

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Jason Linkins

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U.S. Military Contractor 'Used Armored Cars To Transport Prostitutes'

HuffingtonPost.com   |  Jason Linkins   |   April 29, 2008 12:00 PM

Read More: Dyncorp, Iraq, Iraq Contractors, Iraq War, Iraq War Contractors, Private Security Contractors, Prostitution, Warwire
Over at Muckraked, we get news that "a panel of whistleblowers" testifying before a Senate committee yesterday dropped a dime on their employer, military contractor DynCorp (among others). The most explosive part of the testimony involved a contract manager, a...

An Iraqi Translator Gets Prosecuted While Blackwater Gets Another Year in Iraq

Jeremy Scahill | Posted April 6, 2008 | Politics

Read More: Alaa Mohammad Ali, Blackwater, Blackwater Investigation, Blackwater Iraq, Blackwater USA, Iraq, Iraq Blackwater Contract, Iraq Contractors, Iraq War, Iraq War Contractors, Nisour Square, Private Contractors, Private Security Contractors, Saddam Hussein
Jeremy Scahill

For the first time since 1968, the Pentagon has charged a civilian contractor under military law. But the individual in question is not one of the Blackwater "shooters" alleged to have gunned down seventeen Iraqi civilians in Baghdad's Nisour Square last September, nor is it the Blackwater contractor accused...

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The 100 Years War

Bill Maher | Posted March 21, 2008 | Politics

Read More: Defense Spending, Dick Cheney, Dick Cheney Iraq, Iraq Contractors, Iraq Five Years Of War, Iraq War Five Year Anniversary, John McCain Iraq Surge, McCain Iraq, McCain Iraq 100 Years, Neocons, Neoconservatives, Private Contractors, Private Security Contractors, War Profiteering
Bill Maher

In the past 24 hours, Dick Cheney has been in Baghdad, calling the Iraq War a "successful endeavor." John McCain's there too, and actually uttered those four magic words, "the surge is working," which only differs from Cheney's analysis in the scary possibility that McCain might actually believe it. Then...

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Blackwater Inquiry Turns to Baghdad

AP   |  MATT APUZZO and LARA JAKES JORDAN   |   February 21, 2008

Read More: Blackwater, Blackwater Iraq, Blackwater Shooting, Iraq, Iraq War, Private Security Contractors, Security Contractors Iraq, War In Iraq, Warwire
WASHINGTON — Federal authorities investigating Blackwater Worldwide contractors are returning to Baghdad this week to revisit the scene of a deadly September shooting that left 17 Iraqi civilians dead. The two-week trip, by eight prosecutors and FBI agents, marks the...

Iraq Security Guards Getting New Rules

AP   |  RICHARD LARDNER   |   January 30, 2008

Read More: Blackwater, Iraq, Iraq War, Private Security Contractors, Security Contractors Iraq, Security Contractors Iraq Rules, War In Iraq, War On Terror, Warwire
WASHINGTON — Under pressure to exercise greater control over private security contractors in Iraq, Bush administration officials outlined stricter rules for these armed guards during a three-hour meeting Wednesday at the Pentagon with 20 companies. The top executives from the...

The GOP Iraq War: Follow the Money

Dan Agin | Posted December 5, 2007 | Politics

Read More: Al Qaeda, Bush Iraq, Darth Vader, Department Of Defense, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Halliburton, Iraq, Iraq Contractors, Iraq Surge, Iraq Veterans, Iraq War, Iraq War Contractors, Iraq War Funding, National Institutes Of Health, Private Contractors, Private Security Contractors
Dan Agin

So far, the Republican Grand Old Party Iraq War has apparently cost the American people $475 billion -- in addition to 3800 or so dead, maybe 10,000 seriously wounded, many of them with missing limbs or brain injuries.

Bush the Younger originally went to war to topple Saddam Hussein...

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Michael Roston

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Blackwater's California Wildfire Relief Efforts Backfire With Local Residents

HuffingtonPost.com   |  Michael Roston   |   November 15, 2007 01:30 AM

Read More: Blackwater, Blackwater West, Brian Bonfiglio, California, Private Security Contractors, Wildfires
While hundreds of thousands of citizens were fleeing Southern California's wildfires in October, Blackwater USA was charging back in. While the fires still burned, executives from the private security firm personally delivered food and supplies to displaced residents and eventually...

"They Just Killed A Man And Drove Away"

New York Times   |  James Glanz   |   November 11, 2007 11:03 PM

Read More: DynCorp Shooting, Iraq, Iraq Private Contractors, Iraq Private Contractors Shooting, Iraq War, Private Contractors, Private Security, Private Security Contractors, Private Security Firms
An Iraqi taxi driver was shot and killed on Saturday by a guard with DynCorp International, a private security company hired to protect American diplomats here, when a DynCorp convoy rolled past a knot of traffic on an exit ramp...
Michael Roston

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Democrats' New Bill Gives Blackwater, Contractors Six Months Notice In Iraq

HuffingtonPost.com   |  Michael Roston   |   November 9, 2007 01:26 PM

Read More: Blackwater, Breaking Political News, Iraq, Private Security Contractors, Rep. Jan Schakowsky
A group of House members and one Senator came together on Tuesday to introduce the "Stop Outsourcing Security Act," a bill that will give pink slips to private security guards employed by contractors like Blackwater USA in Iraq and other...
Michael Roston

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White House Trying To Limit Reach Of Criminal Law On Blackwater, Contractors

HuffingtonPost.com   |  Michael Roston   |   November 8, 2007 11:00 AM

Read More: Blackwater, Breaking Political News, House Of Representatives, Iraq, Private Security Contractors, Senate
A tug of war has broken out between Congress and the Bush administration over legislation that would put private security contractors on a shorter legal leash. The White House and Justice Department are trying to limit the reach of U.S....
Michael Roston

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Heat Builds On Blackwater: Congresswoman Moves To Ban Private Security Contractors

HuffingtonPost.com   |  Michael Roston   |   November 1, 2007 01:22 PM

Read More: Blackwater, Breaking Political News, Iraq, Jan Schakowsky, Private Security Contractors
The congressional vice-grip is tightening on Blackwater and other contracted defense firms. Next Wednesday, Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) will introduce legislation to phase out the use of tens of thousands of private security contractors deployed on battlefields where American troops...

Blackwater is Still Accountable to No One

Rep. Elijah Cummings | Posted October 30, 2007 | Politics

Read More: Blackwater, Blackwater Hearings, Blackwater Immunity, Blackwater Iraq, Erik Prince Blackwater, Private Security, Private Security Contractors
Rep. Elijah Cummings

We cannot continue to risk the lives of hundreds of thousands of American troops and spend billions of taxpayer dollars on a mission in Iraq while undermining this same mission through the sanctioning of a shadow military of mercenary forces who operate in a vacuum of any kind of law...

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The Waxman Cometh: Rice Hammered By Dems During Iraq Hearing

AP   |  ANNE FLAHERTY   |   October 25, 2007 12:40 PM

Read More: Blackwater, Condoleeza Rice, Henry Waxman, Iraq, Private Security Contractors, State Department
Rep. Henry Waxman, chairman of the House oversight committee, said Thursday that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has issued an order requiring his approval of any corruption investigations of himself or senior ministry officials. Waxman, D-Calif., said the order essentially...

Military May Get Control Of Iraq Contractors

AP   |  ANNE FLAHERTY   |   October 25, 2007 09:16 AM

Read More: Blackwater, Iraq, Military, Private Security Contractors
Congress is moving to put all armed contractors operating in combat zones under military control, acting on a Pentagon recommendation that could run into resistance at the State Department. The Senate this month included such a requirement in its 2008...
Max Follmer

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Blackwater Chief Concedes It Is "Possible" Guards Made A Mistake

HuffingtonPost.com   |  Max Follmer   |   October 13, 2007 08:29 PM

Read More: Baghdad, Blackwater USA, Charlie Rose, Erik Prince, Iraq, Iraq War, Pbs, Private Contractors, Private Security, Private Security Contractors
In an interview with Charlie Rose to air Monday on PBS, Blackwater USA chief Erik Prince continues to defend his security guards, and indeed argues that they could have been useful in situations like the Rwandan genocide in 1994, or...

New Evidence That Blackwater Guards Took No Fire

The New York Times   |  James Glanz, Richard A. Oppel Jr. and Michael Kamber   |   October 12, 2007 10:57 PM

Read More: Baghdad, Blackwater USA, Iraq, Iraq War, Private Contractors, Private Security, Private Security Contractors
Fresh accounts of the Blackwater shooting last month, given by three rooftop witnesses and by American soldiers who arrived shortly after the gunfire ended, cast new doubt Friday on statements by Blackwater guards that they were responding to armed insurgents...

Afghan Govt Shuts Down 2 Private Security Companies, Targets 10 Others

AP   |  FISNIK ABRASHI and JASON STRAZIUSO   |   October 11, 2007 10:18 AM

Read More: Afghanistan, Afghanistan War, Private Security Contractors, War On Terror
Afghan authorities this week shut down two private security companies and said more than 10 others _ some suspected of murder and robbery _ would soon be closed, Afghan and Western officials said Thursday. Authorities on Tuesday shut down the...

Private Security Contractors Kill 2 Iraqi Women

AP   |  SINAN SALAHEDDIN   |   October 9, 2007 11:45 AM

Read More: Iraq War, Iraqi Women, Private Security Contractors
Guards in a security convoy opened fire on a car at an intersection in central Baghdad on Tuesday, killing two Christian women, police said. Separately, suicide car bombings targeting a local police chief and a Sunni sheik working with U.S....

 

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