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Bringing Road Rage to Iraq - Sandline Style

Posted November 28th, 2005 by quarsan
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As we know, private military contractors are entirely unregulated in Iraq. An insight into their actions can be seen on a video of shooting at random passers by. This is a common occurance

Capt Adnan Tawfiq of the Iraqi Interior Ministry which deals with compensation issues, has told the Sunday Telegraph that he has received numerous claims from families who allege that their relatives have been shot by private security contractors travelling in road convoys.

He said: "When the security companies kill people they just drive away and nothing is done. Sometimes we ring the companies concerned and they deny everything. The families don't get any money or compensation. I would say we have had about 50-60 incidents of this kind."

There is going to be an investigation... By Tim Spicer, yes that Tim Spicer. More information is on a private message board run by the mercenaries themselves. You can read about the drunkenness, incompetance, drugs etc etc.

Perhaps this is what Allawi meant when he said that human rights abuses are as bad as Saddams era. Funny, we thought he was talking about the insurgents, not the people we're subsidising with our taxes...

Interestingly, the message

On December 1st, 2005 mag (not verified) says:

Interestingly, the message board site is down. Now I wonder why?!!

The direct links still work,

On December 1st, 2005 quarsan says:

The direct links still work, they only removed the main index page.

not the finest security experts in the world are they... There was one post when someone said the site could be accessed by Googoe. The webmaster replied that it shouldn't happen as they had deliberately not submitted the site to Google...