Outsourcing War: The Rise of Private Military Contractors (tags)
privatizing war
March 13-16: Winter Soldier - Watch and Listen to Eyewitness Accounts (tags)
Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan will be broadcast live. Here's how you can watch and listen:
Drugged Gang-Raped and Imprisoned (tags)
Is Gang-Rape Allowed by Contractors in Iraq ? Jamie Leigh Jones was reportedly drugged, gang-raped and imprisoned in a container by fellow KBR co-workers in 2005 while working in Iraq on a U.S. Defense Department contract. Like the Abu Ghraib torture victims who still have not seen justice after more than four years, the abuse Jones says she suffered at the hands of private contractors over two years ago has not seen the light of a criminal trial.