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Future Outlook
DoD takes over Afghan Police training after IG cites State Dept. failures
The Defense Department is taking over training of the Afghan National Police because State Department-hired trainers failed to keep pace with the growing instability in Afghanistan or address the security needs of the civilian population, according to a joint State and DOD Inspector General report released late last week.
Friday, February 26, 2010
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Regs, Laws, Oversight
US lawmakers push to phase out wartime contractors
Two lawmakers announced legislation Monday that would force the United States to phase out its controversial use of private security contractors in war zones like Iraq and Afghanistan. Democratic Representative Jan Schakowsky and Independent Senator Bernie Sanders said they planned to introduce the "Stop Outsourcing Security Act" on Tuesday.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
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Casualties
More than 1700 contractors have been killed
The Labor Department, which tracks injuries to contract workers abroad, recently updated the tally [4]: Since 2001, more than 1,700 civilian contractors have died in Iraq and Afghanistan and nearly 40,000 have been reported injured.
Monday, February 22, 2010
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Iraq Says Contractor Expulsions Final
Hundreds of private security guards who have been ordered to leave Iraq within days because of links to Blackwater Worldwide cannot appeal the order, Iraq's interior minister said Thursday.
Friday, February 12, 2010
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Crimes - Investigations
Two Contractors Charged With Murder and Other Offenses Related to Shooting Death of Two Afghan Nationals in Kabul, Afghanistan
Justin Cannon, 27, of Corpus Christi, Texas, and Christopher Drotleff, 29, of Virginia Beach, Va., have been charged with crimes including second-degree murder, attempted murder and firearms offenses while working as contractors for the U.S. Department of Defense in Afghanistan.
Friday, January 8, 2010
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U.S. Adding Contractors at Fast Pace
Even before the Obama administration decided to send tens of thousands of additional U.S. forces to Afghanistan, battlefield contractors there had seen a surge of their own. Contractors already outnumber U.S. forces in Afghanistan, and their numbers have been rising all year, as the Obama administration increases troop levels.
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
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Lawsuits
Woman awarded $3M in assault claim against KBR
A woman who claimed she was raped in 2005 while working in Iraq for a former Halliburton Co. subsidiary has been awarded nearly $3 million by an arbitrator to settle her case. Tracy Barker had sued U.S. contractor KBR Inc., its former parent company Halliburton and several affiliates in May 2007, claiming she was sexually attacked by a State Department employee while working as a civilian contractor in the southern Iraqi city of Basra.
Saturday, November 21, 2009
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Crimes - Investigations
U.S. to drop charges against one Blackwater guard
U.S. Justice Department prosecutors asked a federal judge on Friday to dismiss the charges against one of five Blackwater security guards accused of killing 14 unarmed Iraqi civilians in a 2007 shooting in Baghdad.
Saturday, November 21, 2009
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Casualties
Civilian Contractor Toll in Iraq and Afghanistan Ignored by Defense Dept.
As the war in Afghanistan entered its ninth year, the Labor Department recently released new figures for the number of civilian contract workers who have died in war zones since 9/11. Although acknowledged as incomplete, the figures show that at least 1,688 civilians have died and more than 37,000 have reported injuries while working for U.S. contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Monday, October 12, 2009
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Casualties
Contractors in Iraq Are Hidden Casualties of War
Nearly 1,600 civilian workers -- both Americans and foreign nationals -- have died in the two war zones. Thousands more have been injured. (More than 5,200 U.S. service members have been killed and 35,000 wounded.) Many of the civilians have come home as military veterans in all but name, sometimes with lifelong disabilities but without the support network available to returning troops.
Thursday, October 8, 2009
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Scuffle With Security Contractors Highlights Iraqis' New Clout in Green Zone
In a dramatic illustration of shifting authority in the Green Zone, once an American preserve, Iraqi soldiers confronted a security detail contracted by the U.S. government, detained four of the guards and beat them in a standoff last week that lasted at least two hours, according to Iraqi officials, the company and the U.S. Embassy.
Thursday, October 8, 2009
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Report Downloads
Federal law forces bad choices for embassy security, says special report
A single sentence in federal law is preventing the U.S. State Department from making the best choice of security contractors for embassies and other Foreign Service buildings in war zones and should be changed, according to a special report issued today by the federal Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Friday, October 2, 2009
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