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October 10, 2003       Share:    

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A496-2003Oct8.html

Spending on Iraq Sets Off Gold Rush

(Washington Post) Jonathan Weisman and Anitha Reddy - Of the $4 billion a month already being spent in Iraq, as much as a third is going to the private contractors who have flooded into the country, said Deborah D. Avant, a political scientist at George Washington University and an expert in the new breed of private military companies. Perhaps 20,000 Americans are deployed in Iraq and Kuwait as contractors, a group larger than any of the military forces fielded there by Britain or other U.S. allies.

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