Matters Blackwater (Merged thread)

[Jedburgh]

....Contractors are in significant use today in Iraq. In fact, it would seem that they have had relatively few casualties given the high usage...

There are more "contractors" KIA/WIA in Iraq than you hear about in the headlines - partly because the stories get buried, partly because often they are not Americans. Just recently Unity Resources Group, a company with which I have some contact, lost three personnel in an ambush in Baghdad - but although the principal was a US citizen (also killed), none of them were.

Wasn't there something in the news not too long ago that will place these types of security personnel under the UCMJ?

Washington Post, 15 Jan 07: New Law Could Subject Civilians to Military Trial