CRS Report – Private Security Contractors in Iraq: Background, Legal Status, and Other Issues

Private Security Contractors in Iraq: Background, Legal Status, and Other Issues, updated June 21, 2007 (33 pages, PDF). [via Secrecy News]
Related government documents and news:

  • Hearing, House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, May 10, 2007: from the transcript of testimony by Jeremy Scahill, reporter and author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army – “Many Americans are under the impression that the US currently has about 145,000 active duty troops on the ground in Iraq. What is seldom mentioned is the fact that there are at least 126,000 private personnel deployed alongside the official armed forces. These private forces effectively double the size of the occupation force…”
  • latimes.com – Private contractors outnumber U.S. troops in Iraq
  • New York Times: Contractor Deaths in Iraq Soar to Record
  • Iraq by the Numbers, Tomdispatch.com, Posted June 28, 2007
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