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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Military contractor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		A defense contractor or a military contractor is a business or individual who contracts with a government to provide goods or services used for national security or warfare.
		Military staff are lured by the fact that entry level positions with the various companies can pay up to $100,000 a year, which is 2-3 times more than what an average special forces soldier is paid.
		Could you speak to, since the private contractors are operating outside the Uniform Code of Military Justice, could you speak to what law or rules of engagement do govern their behaviour and whether there has been any study showing that it is cost-effective to have them in Iraq rather than US military personnel.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Military-contractor (277 words)

	Private military contractor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Could you speak to, since the private contractors are operating outside the Uniform Code of Military Justice, could you speak to what law or rules of engagement do govern their behaviour and whether there has been any study showing that it is cost-effective to have them in Iraq rather than US military personnel.
		Employees of private military contractor CACI were involved in the Iraq Abu Ghraib prison scandal in 2003, and 2004.
		On March 31, 2004, four American private contractors belonging to the company Blackwater USA were ambushed and killed by guerillas as they drove through Fallujah.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Private_military_contractor (2142 words)

	Private Military Corporations - SourceWatch
		Private military corporations, private military firms, private security companies, military services providers, the privatized military industry are all attempts to label the phenomena of private companies offering services on the world market that have normally been duties of national military forces or involve armed security detail for business in unstable regions.
		Private military contractors are the second largest force in Iraq with over twenty thousand active personnel in the country.
		The single largest issue introduced by the evolution of military services by the private sector is the degree to which corporations are now transcending the power of governments, rising as an influential variable within international and regional diplomacy, and redefining sovereignty in the 21st century.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Private_military_contractors (3034 words)

	Military Contractors -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		A contractor is in a legal sense one who enters into a binding agreement to perform a certain service or provide a certain product in exchange for ''valuable consideration'', monetary, goods,services, even barter arrangements.
		The term contractor is also applied to a private company, such as a military contractor, or a school bus contractor, each of which provides products or services to a government.
		The employer of an independent contractor is not held vicariously liable for the tortious acts of the contractor, except where the contractor injures an invitee to the property of the employer.
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/98/military-contractors.html (793 words)

	JournalStar.com :: Printable Version (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Private military contractors have more employees in Iraq than any member of the coalition except the United States.
		Responsible private military contractors in Iraq are in favor of more regulation because irresponsible and poorly run military contractors are pouring into Iraq in search of lucrative contracts.
		The private military contractors attract employees with salaries as high as $100,000 a year or $1,000 a day, depending on the length of the contract.
	www.journalstar.com /articles/2005/01/24/editorial_main/10048717.prt (427 words)

	Amnesty Magazine
		Private contractors began supplying interrogators to the U.S. government in the mid-1990s, but the practice increased exponentially after 9/11.
		After a South African contractor died in a gun battle against insurgents in the Iraqi town of Kut, it was found that the dead man, Gray Branfield, had been a hitman for the apartheid regime.
		Workers supplied by two private contractors, CACI and Titan Corporation (which supplies interpreters to the army) are admonished in the Taguba Report as being “directly or indirectly responsible” for abuses at Abu Ghraib.
	www.amnestyusa.org /magazine/outsourcing.html (802 words)

	Private Military Firms - New Element in War
		But this is not simply about private military contractors getting rich from taxpayer dollars.
		During the Balkan conflict, private employees of DynCorp., most of whom are U.S. military veterans, were implicated in sex crimes, prostitution rackets and illegal arms trading.
		But privately, behind the scenes, the White House did much more, awarding an initial $10 million contract to a PMF to work in that troubled nation.
	www.commondreams.org /views03/0904-02.htm (754 words)

	Warriors for Hire in Iraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		It boomed in an era of military downsizing (the U.S. military is about one-third smaller than it was during the 1991 Gulf War) and the increasing demands of new deployments, the more-technical requirements of modern warfare, and privatization as a new vogue of government.
		The hiring of such a large private force and the ensuing casualties that it has taken outside of public awareness and discussion have served as a novel means for displacing some of the political costs of the war.
		Their employees deployed with U.S. military forces on the ground (including serving in the CIA paramilitary units that were the first to hit the ground), maintained combat equipment, provided logistical support, and routinely flew on joint surveillance and targeting aircraft.
	www.brookings.edu /views/articles/fellows/singer20040415.htm (6153 words)

	Bombings Bring U.S. 'Executive Mercenaries' Into the Light (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Private military contractors are flushing out drug traffickers in Colombia and turning the rag-tag militias of African nations into fighting machines.
		Contractors also allow the administration to carry out foreign policy goals in low-level skirmishes around the globe - often fueled by ethnic hatreds and a surplus of cold war weapons - without having to fear the media attention that comes if American soldiers are sent home in body bags.
		Contractors cannot arm themselves - they risk losing their status as noncombatants if they do and, in the extreme, could be declared mercenaries and subject to execution if captured.
	www.veteransforpeace.org /Bombings_bring_052103.htm (4059 words)

	View from the Hill Online - Representative Jan Schakowsky, 9th District, Illinois - 2002 Press Releases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		But the real reason for the use of private contractors is to reduce the political costs of war, according to P.W. Singer, an expert on private contractors and the military at the Brookings Institution in Washington.
		By using private contractors to do work soldiers once did, Singer said, the administration doesn't have to call up more regular troops, or National Guard and reserves, or compromise with allies to get them to send more troops.
		Contractors wanting to work for Blackwater in Iraq, such as Zovko, must sign contracts that compel them to pay Blackwater a quarter of a million dollars in instant damages if they violate their contract for doing things such as discussing details of the contracts or work.
	www.house.gov /schakowsky/press2004a/pr11_09_2004bwusa.html (1910 words)

	Monthly Review May 2004 Notes from the Editors
		The killing by the Iraqi resistance on March 31 of four private military contractors working for Blackwater USA (most of whom were former U.S. special operations personnel), and the subsequent mutilation of their corpses by an angry population, brought international attention to the growth of private military firms.
		Military Professional Resources Incorporated (better known as MPRI), one of the biggest and most prestigious private military firms because of its leading role in the Balkans, was purchased in 2000 by L-3 Communications, an entity spun out of military manufacturers Loral and Lockheed Martin in 1997.
		Private military firms employ a wide array of military specialists, drawing on a huge and growing military reserve army and luring key specialists away from the regular militaries with lucrative salary offers.
	www.monthlyreview.org /nfte0504.htm (1376 words)

	Citizen Works - Private Military Companies
		Such is the perverse logic behind private military companies (PMCs) like Dyncorp and MPRI, which provide support and combat services directly to the Pentagon.
		According to the Washington Post, there is one private contractor for every ten military personnel stationed in the Persian Gulf, or about 20,000 private employees.
		The result is that private military companies add an extra layer of secrecy to military activities.
	www.citizenworks.org /corp/pmc.php (280 words)

	Opinion - Private military companies in Colombia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Private military companies operate at a higher cost than our own military, and we lack direct control, oversight, and accountability for their operations.
		It troubles us that information regarding contractors paid for with US taxpayer funds is intentionally being kept secret from the public, both by the State Department and the contractors themselves.
		If these private military corporations are being used to avoid public scrutiny and the bad publicity that might ensue from body bags coming home due to an unpopular and poorly explained foreign adventure, then use of PMC's and quite possibly the entire Colombia policy are not sustainable and therefore, will not be successful.
	www.thepanamanews.com /pn/v_07/issue_07/opinion_01.html (254 words)

	State Sovereignty and Private Security Companies - Global Policy Forum - Nations and States (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Unlike state military and police forces, these private companies operate beyond the realm of legal accountability and public oversight, and they enable states and industrial companies to engage in military operations, seize valuable natural resources, terrorize citizens and overthrow governments without public knowledge.
		Drawing a distinction between the “modern” private military company and the “classical” mercenary, this article argues that it is better to regulate companies than outlaw them completely.
		As private military contractors increasingly engage in peacekeeping operations and conflict resolution, many hope to wash themselves free of the negative connotation of the word “mercenary.” As the BBC points out, whether a mercenary or a private military contractor, many of these "hired guns" continue to fuel instability by engaging in violent conflicts.
	www.globalpolicy.org /nations/sovereign/militaryindex.htm (1725 words)

	Military Contractor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
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		Military officials in Iraq were fully aware that a Pentagon contractor regularly paid Iraqi newspapers to publish positive stories about the war, and made it clear that none of the stories should.
		Desperate to move out of her Fema trailer and back into her house, Shepard put her trust in a contractor only to be let down.
	contractor.4gifts.info /contractor-liscense/976992 (242 words)

	News and Opinion on Iraq
		The spectacular development of private military contractors in Iraq and their integration into the U.S. military machine are proceeding apace, but with but scant attention from mainstream corporate media.
		Private security companies are said to have about 20,000 “soldiers” in Iraq, paid five to twenty times as much as military personnel in the national armies.
		Not only are these private “soldiers” not subject to military discipline or prosecution, but their companies are paid, or see their contracts renewed, on a pro rata basis, according to how much information is obtained.
	www.williambowles.info /iraq/aegis.html (1001 words)

	frontline: private warriors: inside iraq's 2nd largest force \| PBS
		One of the arguments for downsizing the military after the Cold War was that private contractors could be brought in to do some jobs more efficiently and the cost would be cheaper than the expense of a larger standing army.
		Two specialists on international politics and the military's use of private contractors offer some history and context for how we should understand these companies and the evolution of their use.
		In the Minutes of Private Security Company Working Group, a meeting that took place March 30, 2004, at CPA Headquarters, Green Zone, here's one of the many comments candidly summing up some of the issues confronting CPA and contractors: "We are creating a private army on an unprecedented scale.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/warriors/contractors (792 words)

	Iraq occupation makes possible record profits for British private military contractor
		The private military industry is growing with some estimating annual contracts in the $10-20 billion range, while others cite figures as high as $100 billion.
		In 1967 Stirling founded the first proper private military company; Watchguard International, which hired from the SAS and trained the armies of the Persian Gulf states.
		Last year, four former security contractors told NBC News that they watched as innocent Iraqi civilians were fired upon, and one was crushed by a truck.
	wsws.org /articles/2006/feb2006/cont-f28.shtml (1906 words)

	mparent7777: Iraq occupation makes possible record profits for British private military contractor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Amongst the functions of the company is to pass on information on the activity of insurgents, providing a daily intelligence service to contractors, as well as tracking the position of their vehicles.
		The services officially provided by private military contractors range from risk advice, training of local forces, armed site security, cash transport, intelligence services, workplace and building security, war zone security, weapons procurement, vetting, armed support, air support, logistical support, maritime security, cyber security, weapons destruction, prison supervision, surveillance, psychological warfare, propaganda tactics and covert operations.
		The use of private military forces or mercenary armies by states is not a recent development, but its global proliferation has very modern roots.
	mparent7777.livejournal.com /6673788.html (1898 words)

	frontline: private warriors: readings & links \| PBS
		He argues that outsourcing the responsibility of national defense to the private sector is often economically inefficient and can expose the military to the uncertainties of the free market -- at a time when it can least afford it.
		It found that the DOD relied on contractors for many essential services but did not have sufficient backup plans in case the contractors failed to fulfill their obligations, and did not adequately inform its field commanders of the contractor activity taking place in their area of operations.
		In the Minutes of Private Security Company Working Group, a meeting that took place March 30, 2004, at CPA Headquarters, Green Zone, appears one of the many comments candidly summing up some of the issues confronting CPA and contractors: "We are creating a private army on an unprecedented scale.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/warriors/etc/links.html (1346 words)

	Q&A: Private Military Contractors and the Law (Human Rights Watch, 2-10-2007)
		Private contractors (also known as private military or security contractors) provide a range of services for and on behalf of the US armed forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.
		Contractors — serving as interrogators and translators — have been linked to abuses at Abu Ghraib prison; and security contractors have been involved in numerous firefights in which there have been civilian casualties.
		Although the military use of contractors in the field dates back to the Revolutionary War, the US military in recent years has greatly increased its deployment of private contractors.
	www.hrw.org /english/docs/2004/05/05/iraq8547.htm (1881 words)

	CorpWatch : Iraq: Prison Workers Questioned
		U.S. military contractor says its staff at Abu Ghraib volunteered to be interviewed in the case involving the abuse of detainees there.
		CACI, which provides services to the U.S. military ranging from intelligence gathering to computer networking, declined to identify the employees or their jobs at the prison, which houses about 8,000 convicted criminals and military detainees.
		Military and industry sources said CACI was involved in the interrogation of some Iraqis being held at the prison.
	www.corpwatch.org /article.php?id=11279 (1067 words)

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	armslore14: Private Military?
		As for the privatized military, I think we are on our way in that direction.
		People generally leave the military for the private sector after the military trains them.
		No, privatization is not necessary for corruption, but I fear an organization with a trained military force that it could use to either support or not support any candidate it wishes.
	armslore14.livejournal.com /15211.html (551 words)

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