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technorati.blogs[technorati.blogs.length] = new item('Armillary Observations','http://hlime.wordpress.com/2007/06/20/tuesdays-military-extraterritorial-jurisdiction-act-meja-testimony/','... serving with or accompanying an armed force in the field.????? UCMJ, Article 2(a)(10).?? Such contractors not currently covered by court-martial jurisdiction arguably include CIA, State, and other non-DoD contractors.   At a time when the  <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/04/AR2006120401311.html">number of contractor personnel in Iraq</a>  (well over 100,000, including subcontractors) nearly equals the total number of armed forces personnel in Iraq, clear accountability for contractor misdeeds is of great importance to the national interest.?? To date, though there have been almost 50 ...');
technorati.blogs[technorati.blogs.length] = new item('A Postmodern Desi','http://densaer.livejournal.com/554776.html','... the fallen. There are (at last estimate I saw) around ~20k contractors in Iraq. Not all of them are the gun-toting Blackwater types, but enough of them are that we should at least consider the lawfulness of such things.  Update: I way low-balled. The  <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/04/AR2006120401311.html">actual number is close to 100,000</a> .  ...');
technorati.blogs[technorati.blogs.length] = new item('Rogers Park Bench','http://rogersparkbench.blogspot.com/2007/06/free-event-war-at-what-cost.html','Private Military Corporations - SourceWatch Private military contractors are the second largest force in Iraq with over twenty thousand active personnel in the country.  Outsourcing our military responsibilities   <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/04/AR2006120401311.html">Census Counts 100000 Contractors in Iraq - washingtonpost.com</a>   Soldiers of Fortune Since they???re not enlisted military, employees of private military contractors can???t be court-martialed.  ...');
technorati.blogs[technorati.blogs.length] = new item('antigram','http://antigram.blogspot.com','IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ  <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/04/AR2006120401311.html">IRAQ</a>  IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ ...');
technorati.blogs[technorati.blogs.length] = new item('Progressive Pit Bull','http://progressivepitbull.blogspot.com/2007/05/what-would-you-do-with-500-billion.html','t stop at $500 billion though. It ...');
technorati.blogs[technorati.blogs.length] = new item('Blairwatch | Chronicling the Demise of the New Labour Project.','http://www.blairwatch.co.uk','...  IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ  IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ  IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ  IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ  IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ  <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/04/AR2006120401311.html">IRAQ</a>  IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ  IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ  IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ  IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ  IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ  IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ  IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ  IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ ...');
technorati.blogs[technorati.blogs.length] = new item('I Am A TV Junkie, A Blog For The Clicker Jockey','http://iamatvjunkie.typepad.com/i_am_a_tv_junkie_a_blog_f/2007/05/greenwalds_iraq.html','s interesting is that the commenter is posting from Chesapeake, VA, which, interestingly, is the place where Blackwater USA  ...');
technorati.blogs[technorati.blogs.length] = new item('THE NEWS BLOG','http://www.thenewsblog.net/2007/04/withdrawal.html','...  <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/04/AR2006120401311.html">hundreds of thousands</a>  of them. They have cost the US government, meaning the US taxpayers, tens of billions of dollars. They have exacerbated the cultural and political conflict through improper behavior and improper training. They have participated in massive fraud - ...');
technorati.blogs[technorati.blogs.length] = new item('Media Mouse: News Briefs: Grand Rapids Michigan Independent Media','http://www.mediamouse.org/features/042407bush_.php','... in Iraq performing security and other functions. Contractors have been implicated in a variety of murders and abuses from Abu Ghraib to the killing of civilians but are largely exempt for oversight and legal consequences. It is estimated that there are  <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/04/AR2006120401311.html">100,000 contractors in Iraq</a> .    The Iraqi and American governments want to rebuild communities and improve lives -- the extremists and terrorists want to destroy communities and take lives. And when ordinary Iraqis see this difference for themselves, they become more likely to ...');
technorati.blogs[technorati.blogs.length] = new item('INDEX RESEARCH','http://indexresearch.blogspot.com','... legislation to tackle their human rights abuses. A new report launched today by the charity War on Want reveals that no prosecutions have followed hundreds of accounts of personnel from private military and security firms committing abuses in Iraq.???   <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/04/AR2006120401311.html">Census Counts 100,000 Contractors in Iraq</a> . 05.12.06. R. Merle, Washington Post.   U.S. to Armor-Plate Iraqi Police Vehicles 16.12.06. W. Pincus, Washington Post.    U.S. to triple number of military trainers in Iraq 17.12.06. Reuters.   Navy vet says he was tortured by U.S. forces ...');