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Marine reportedly killed by opium-fueled private contractors
Pentagon originally said Marine killed in combat
RawStory.com Headlines/John Byrne
The Pentagon confirmed late Tuesday that it is investigating the death of a 24-year-old Indiana Marine after he was shot to death in Afghanistan, allegedly by several US-paid private security contractors.
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Contractors outnumber full-time workers at DHS; lawmakers ‘astounded’
Jeanne Meserve, CNN
Washington (CNN) — The Department of Homeland Security has more contractors working for it than full-time employees, a situation two members of Congress said Tuesday was “unacceptable, untenable and unsustainable.”
Sen. Joseph Lieberman, the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and ranking Republican Susan Collins said they were “astounded” to [...]
“These Guys Are Like Vultures”: Profit-Driven Private Contractors Flocking to Haiti
Anthony Fenton, IPS News
20 Feb 2010
VANCOUVER, Canada, Feb 19, 2010 (IPS) — Critics are concerned that private military contractors are positioning themselves at the center of an emerging “shock doctrine” for earthquake-ravaged Haiti.
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Hiring Death Squads Is Coming Back to Haunt U.S. Companies
Charlie Cray, AlterNet
A federal judge recently refused to dismiss a civil suit filed against Chiquita which charges that the company paid leftist (FARC) guerrillas operating near its plantations in Columbia — during a period when the FARC killed four American missionaries, according to CNN.
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Iraq Orders Former Blackwater Guards Out
Iraq gives hundreds of former and current Blackwater employees 7 days to leave country
Qassim Abdul-Zahra/Commondreams
BAGHDAD — Iraq has ordered hundreds of private security guards linked to Blackwater Worldwide to leave the country within seven days or face possible arrest on visa violations, the interior minister said Wednesday.
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Shorter Question Everything
Israel: Kurdistan
According to recent media reports, Israeli military and intelligence agents are currently operating in Iraqi Kurdistan. Their primary role, according to reports, is to train elite Kurdish commandos in guerrilla warfare and anti-terror tactics. The Kurds – whose country is currently occupied by Iraq, Turkey, Iran and Syria – are reportedly again, after many [...]
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CIA moonlights in corporate world
Eamon Javers/Politico
In the midst of two wars and the fight against Al Qaeda, the CIA is offering operatives a chance to peddle their expertise to private companies on the side — a policy that gives financial firms and hedge funds access to the nation’s top-level intelligence talent, POLITICO has learned.
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Blackwater’s Youngest Victim
Jeremy Scahill/The Nation
Every detail of September 16, 2007, is burned in Mohammed Kinani’s memory. Shortly after 9 am he was preparing to leave his house for work at his family’s auto parts business in Baghdad when he got a call from his sister, Jenan, who asked him to pick her and her children up [...]
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Report faults State Department, DynCorp for missing $1 billion
Josh Rogin/The Cable
The State Department cannot account for more than $1 billion it paid out to contractor DynCorp to train police during the first years of the Iraq war, in just one example of management shortcomings that have put at risk $2.5 billion worth of money spent on training policemen around the world, according to [...]
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Private armies worry U.N. peacekeepers