Tue. December 02, 2008
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Monday Morning
December 2, 2008
No such immunity is extended to private security
contractors, over whom the agreement grants
Iraq the "primary right to exercise jurisdiction". ...
Kansas City Star
December 2, 2008
After
McClatchy began asking questions about the men on Tuesday, the Kuwaiti
contractor announced that it would return them to their home countries and pay ...
New York Times
December 2, 2008
American forces in
Iraq have relied far too heavily on private security
contractors who have operated with no real legal accountability. ...
The News Journal
December 2, 2008
Bradenton Herald
December 2, 2008
After
McClatchy began asking questions about the men on Tuesday, the Kuwaiti
contractor announced that it would return them to their home countries and pay ...
RTT News
December 2, 2008
It appealed to
the United States to "investigate reports of deaths caused by privately hired
contractors ... and strengthen effective mechanisms for holding ...
Aviation Week
December 2, 2008
In September, Gates terminated the second refueler competition before it began, citing a need for a cooling off period between the
contractors and the ...
By Joe Sterling (CNN) --
the US-led coalition in
Iraq is swiftly dwindling as security and stability return to the country, and by January only the United ...
Huffington Post
December 2, 2008
Monsters and Critics.com
December 2, 2008
It called on
the United States to 'investigate reports of deaths caused by privately hired
contractors ... and strengthen effective mechanisms for holding ...
Huffington Post
December 2, 2008
First, the agreement should state honestly that American combat troops would remain in
Iraq until 2012. Using the December 31, 2011 date as the deadline is ...
Al-Jazeerah.info
December 2, 2008
There are no published statistics about the deaths or injuries of the private
army soldiers (security
contractors), or about those without US citizenship. ...
CBS News
December 2, 2008
Green Party US (press release)
December 1, 2008
"When
Senator Obama launched his campaign, much of his appeal to voters in the primaries was his initial opposition to the invasion of
Iraq during his time ...
Washington Technology
December 1, 2008
The story of the life and death of Jonathon Coté puts a very human face on the shift in how
contractors have been used in the
Iraq war. ...
Center For American Progress
December 1, 2008
The case for Gates goes beyond the obvious question of assisting the next president in handling
Iraq, which Gates has helped haul back from the brink of ...
News & Observer
December 1, 2008
In what may have been an effort to disrupt election preparations, a rocket hit inside
Baghdad's International Zone Saturday, killing two
contractors and ...
Wired News
December 1, 2008
In June of that year, he applied to become a translator for American forces in
Iraq. On a form asking whether he had ever had any contact with any foreign ...
DemocracyArsenal.org
December 1, 2008
Washington Post
December 1, 2008
1, at 2 pm ET to discuss his book, "Big Boy Rules: America's
Mercenaries Fighting in
Iraq," which tells the stories of private security
contractors in the ...
Wired News
December 1, 2008
But here's the interesting part: the agreement also makes thousands of US
contractors subject to Iraqi law. According to the final version of the text, ...
Asia Times Online
December 1, 2008
Coalition forces and
contractors will be subject to Iraqi law if they commit major and premeditated crimes while off-duty and off-base. ...
Taipei Times
December 1, 2008
Washington Post
December 1, 2008
We are carrying with us tonight the remains of a fallen American in
Iraq. Please remain seated for the movement of the remains and for the American escorts ...
BusinessWeek
December 1, 2008
Though nobody knows the exact number, more than 300 private
contractors have been killed in
Iraq since the start of the war. In one particularly gruesome ...
New York Times
December 1, 2008
By
James Risen WASHINGTON - The thousands of American
contractors in Iraq who have been above Iraqi law since the war began are suddenly facing a new era in ...
eTaiwan News
November 30, 2008
His comments came a day after a rocket slammed to the ground near the UN compound in
the US-protected
Green Zone, killing two foreign
contractors providing ...
International Herald Tribune
November 30, 2008
Wall Street Journal Blogs
November 30, 2008
I later found out that a rocket had struck the nearby
United Nations compound, killing two South Asian
contractors who work for a catering company. ...
Taunton Call
November 30, 2008
contractors have been working inside making basic improvements, laying the groundwork for new carpets, doors, windows and office cubicles. ...
AHN
November 29, 2008
PRESS TV
November 29, 2008
Under the agreement, the American forces and
contractors would be granted immunity from legal prosecution in
Iraq's courts. The controversial agreement has ...
Brazil Times
November 29, 2008
After more than nine months on duty in
Iraq, the approximate 130 local guardsmen returned back home to
Indiana amid cheers and rousing applause as they ...
Los Angeles Times
November 29, 2008
Now, for two hours, the provincial government and the deputy prime minister, along with three dozen sheiks,
contractors and
military officials, debated, ...
New York Times
November 29, 2008
By DAVID BARSTOW In the spring of 2007 a tiny
military contractor with a slender track record went shopping for a precious Beltway commodity. ...
BBC News
November 29, 2008
McClatchy Washington Bureau
November 28, 2008
In
Iraq's hot, dry climate, it turns to dust, which blows into the eyes of anyone walking through the compound. At night, when
sodium lamps illuminate the ...
Amnesty International
November 28, 2008
Middle East Times
November 28, 2008
