PAKISTAN: Attack in Pakistani Garrison City Raises Anxiety About Safety of...
A suicide attack Thursday in Rawalpindi was the first that singled out workers of Pakistan
View ArticleDamming Magdalena: Emgesa Threatens Colombian Communities
Near the town of La Jagua, overlooking the Magdalena River, the landscape is dotted with concrete markers declaring the land, river, and everything else a
View ArticleMission Essential, Translators Expendable
Ohio-based Mission Essential Personnel supplies over 2,000 translators to the Pentagon in Afghanistan, who play a critical role in protecting local and military lives. These interpreters are a key...
View ArticleUS: DynCorp Billed U.S. $50 Million Beyond Costs in Defense Contract
A Defense Department auditor, appearing before the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan, testified Tuesday that DynCorp International billed the government $50 million more than...
View ArticleUS: New Hire Highlights Altegrity's Growing Ambition
For more than 12 years, Falls Church-based USIS quietly scrutinized the backgrounds of individuals who needed security clearance to work in the U.S. government or in the private sector. Now re-named...
View ArticleAFGHANISTAN: Wackenhut aids inquiry into its Afghanistan contractor
This week the Project on Government Oversight released damning allegations of deviant hazing at a camp for security guards in Afghanistan. Sparking questions from the State Department, POGO warned the...
View ArticleAFGHANISTAN: Wackenhut aids inquiry into its Afghanistan contractor
This week the Project on Government Oversight released damning allegations of deviant hazing at a camp for security guards in Afghanistan. Sparking questions from the State Department, POGO warned the...
View ArticleAFGHANISTAN: Wackenhut aids inquiry into its Afghanistan contractor
This week the Project on Government Oversight released damning allegations of deviant hazing at a camp for security guards in Afghanistan. Sparking questions from the State Department, POGO warned the...
View ArticleIRAQ: The Pentagon Garrisons the Gulf: As Washington Talks Iraq Withdrawal,...
Despite recent large-scale insurgent suicide bombings that have killed scores of civilians and the fact that well over 100,000 U.S. troops are still deployed in that country, coverage of the U.S. war...
View ArticleUS: Judge dismisses all charges in Blackwater shooting
A federal judge has dismissed all charges against five Blackwater Worldwide security guards charged in a deadly Baghdad shooting.
View ArticleNIGERIA: Ex-militant leader heads SPDC
Authorities of Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) have unveiled a new security strategy for securing oil pipelines and platforms within the Niger Delta region. Shell has appointed former MEND...
View ArticleAFGHANISTAN: Policing Afghanistan: How Afghan Police Training Became a Train...
The Pentagon faces a tough choice: Should it award a billion-dollar contract for training the Afghan National Police to Xe (formerly Blackwater), a company made infamous when its employees killed 17...
View ArticleUS: Senators Call For Changes to Troubled, Costly Afghan Police Training Program
State and Defense department officials took a tongue-lashing today, trying to explain to a Senate subcommittee how the government has poured $6 billion since 2002 into building an effective Afghan...
View ArticleUS/AFGHANISTAN/PAKISTAN: U.S. Is Still Using Private Spy Ring, Despite Doubts
Top military officials continue to rely on a secret network of private spies set up by Michael D. Furlong, despite concerns about the legality of the operation. A New York Times review found Mr. Furlong
View ArticleU.S. Congressional Wartime Commission Targets Armed Contractors
This week, almost a decade after the U.S. "War on Terror" began, the Commission on Wartime Contracting held two days of hearings into the role of private contractors in conducting and supporting war....
View ArticleKBR and Halliburton Can Be Sued For Iraq Toxic Burn Pits, Court Rules
KBR and Halliburton
View ArticleG4S To End Israel Prison Contracts Following Protests
G4S, the Anglo-Danish security contractor, has agreed to withdraw from prison work in Israel after activists disrupted the company annual general meeting for the second year in a row. The company is...
View ArticleHacking Team Malware Targeted Saudi Arabia Protestors
Malicious software from Hacking Team of Italy that can be used to spy on cell phones has been found by Citizen Lab activists to have been used to target people in Saudi Arabia. The software was bundled...
View ArticleU.S. Contractors Convicted in 2007 Blackwater Baghdad Traffic Massacre
A federal jury here Wednesday convicted one former Blackwater contractor of murder and three of his colleagues of voluntary manslaughter in the deadly shootings of 14 unarmed civilians killed in Baghdad
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