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FOCUS ON 9/11, PMCs, and COUNTER-TERROR:

· 9/11 Attacks Led To Half-Trillion-Dollar Homeland Security Spending Binge: Huffington Post, September 9, 2011 : GO>>

· Small military contractors flourished after 9/11 attacks: LA Times, September 9, 2011 : GO>>

· How Sept. 11 changed government contracting forever: Washington Technology, September 7, 2011: GO>>

• AllAfrica.com http://allafrica.com/ [a horrible neglect, as we often read it; soon we will bring more]

South Africa: Addressing Mercenaries and PMSCS in the Defence Review 2012. By Sabelo Gumedze (Senior Researcher, Conflict Management and Peacebuilding Division, ISS Pretoria Office), May 11, 2012: http://allafrica.com/stories/201205110658.html

• Asia Times Online. http://www.atimes.com

An American 'foreign legion' emerges. By William Astore, 18 February 2009: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/KB18Ak04.html

Mercenaries at work. By Chalmers Johnson, 30 July 2008: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JG30Ak03.html

Escalation in Iraq by the numbers. By Tom Engelhardt, 15 August 2007: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IH15Ak03.html

The Wild West of American intelligence. By Roman Kupchinsky, 2 June 2005: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GF02Ak02.html

Protecting Iraq's precarious pipelines. By David Isenberg, 24 September 2004: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/FI24Ak01.html

War: Just whose business is it anyway? By William D Hartung, 10 March 2004: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/FC10Ak01.html

Security for sale. By David Isenberg, 14 August 2003:
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/EH14Aa01.html

Congress urged to monitor foreign military training. By Jim Lobe, 16 May 2002: http://www.atimes.com/front/DE16Aa01.html

• Australian Broadcasting Corporation. http://www.abc.net.au/

Private military contractors. The Law Report, ABC Radio National: Guests Ian Wing, Charles Sturt, Tim McCormack, Doug Brooks, Mary Picard, Researcher, Presenter Damien Carrick, 9 September 2008: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/lawreport/stories/2008/2356879.htm

Australia's war unreadiness. Unleashed: Jim Molan, 4 August 2008, 10:00: http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2321798.htm

Australia accused of helping spark Fiji coup. 2 April 2008: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/02/2206163.htm

Australia offers to remove Fijians from PNG's Bougainville. Australia Network, 24 November 2006: http://australianetwork.com/news/stories/asiapacific_stories_1796450.htm

Fears Bougainville heading towards civil war. AM, 18 March 2006 08:14:49. Reporter: Steve Marshall: http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2006/s1594378.htm

Fijiian mercernaries on Bougainville. The World Today - Friday, 18 November 2005 12:30:00. Reporter: James Panichi: http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2005/s1509837.htm

Privatising War. Radio National Broadcast (The National Interest), Transcript, 26 September 2004, 12:00, Peter Mares interviews Peter Singer: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/nationalinterest/stories/2004/1205326.htm

Burn, Oil, Burn. Radio National Broadcast, Transcript, 12 September 2004, 09:10. Produced by Stan Correy: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/bbing/stories/s1199802.htm

Singirok cleared of sedition charge. By Shane McLeod (PM Archive), 2 March 2004: http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2004/s1057428.htm

Gunship for Hire. By Mark Corcoran (Travellers' Tales), 28 September 2000: http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/stories/s229144.htm

• AFP. http://www.afp.com/

Clinton sees smaller role for security contractors. 4 February 2009: click here

Private Armed Escorts in High Demand on Sea. By Karl Malakunas, 11 May 2005: http://www.warprofiteers.com/article.php?id=12241 http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/features/featuredetail.asp?file=mayfeatures102005.xml

• BBC News online. http://news.bbc.co.uk/

Two former Blackwater guards charged with Afghan murder. 7 Jan 2010: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8446987.stm

UK hostages 'likely to be dead'. 29 July 2009: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8173653.stm | Hostage families appeal for release (video): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8175207.stm

Iraq releases three of five US contractors. 11 June 2009: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8094616.stm

Simon Mann sentenced for Equatorial Guinea plot. 7 July 2008: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7493717.stm

Yair Gal Klein to be sent to Colombia. 12 March 2008: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7291689.stm

Babcock to buy Devonport naval dockyard. 10 May 2007: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6641427.stm

South Africa's mercenary town. By Jonathan Charles, 9 November 2006: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/4946684.stm

MPs approve new South Africa mercenary bill. 30 August 2006: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/5297704.stm

Profile: French mercenary Bob Denard. 20 June 2006: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/5097580.stm

French 'dog of war' in coup trial. 20 February 2006:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/europe/4733494.stm

US investigates Iraq gunfire film. 10 December 2005:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/middle_east/4515772.stm

Mercenaries 'fuel West African wars' . 13 April 2005: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4438497.stm

How many UK workers are in Iraq? 19 October 2004: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3676356.stm

UK firms in Iraq 'unaccountable'. 21 July 2004: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3914299.stm

Iraqi security in private hands. By Jeremy Scott-Joynt, 28 June 2004: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3842561.stm

Q&A: Private security in Iraq. 27 May 2004: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3747421.stm

Dogs of war into doves of peace. By Keith Somerville, 11 November 2002: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2403517.stm

Peacekeeping 'role' for mercenaries. 13 February 2002:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/1817495.stm

• Boston Globe. http://www.boston.com/news/

Pakistan police raid security contractor- Firm helps protect the US embassy. By Nahal Toos and Munir Ahmad. 20 September 2009: click here

Military contracts have cost taxpayers $85 billion. By Kimberly Hefling, 13 August 2008: click here

Blackwater rehired to protect US officials in Iraq. By James Risen, 10 May 2008: click here

Suicide bomber kills contractors in Afghanistan. By Noor Khan, 6 December 2006: click here

Report says Halliburton subsidiary exploited regulations. By Anne Plummer Flaherty, 28 October 2006: click here

US contractors in Iraq face peril, neglect. By Farah Stockman, 16 October 2006: click here

Amnesty urges tighter rules for contractors. By Danica Kirka, 24 May 2006: click here

Union voices concern on Army base guards. By Pete Yost, 7 September 2005: click here

Contractors detained after Marines fired on. AP, 10 June 2005: click here

US security contracts draw scrutiny. Questions raised on bidding process. By Matt Kelley, 1 January 2005: click here

A new twist on a long military tradition. By Doug Brooks, 19 October 2003: click here

The Enron Pentagon. By Peter W. Singer, 19 October 2003: click here

• Christian Science Monitor. http://www.csmonitor.com/

US use of private contractors in war hits record high. They make up 57 percent of Pentagon's personnel in Afghanistan, report shows. By Peter Grier, 1 September 2009: click here

Record number of US contractors in Iraq. Some 190,000 private personnel were working in the Iraq theater as of early this year, a new report says. 18 August 2008. click here

Cyberspace: new frontier in conflicts. Internet attacks on Georgia expose a key flaw for more than 100 nations. 13 August 2008: click here

A better way than the TSA. Private security firms would actually keep us safe, not just make us feel that way. By Becky Akers, 21 March 2007: http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0321/p09s01-coop.html

Bosnia's leftover guns: Sell, give, destroy? The US wants to give the weapons to Afghan forces after previous sales to Iraq went missing. By Beth Kampschror, 10 July 2006: http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0710/p12s01-woeu.html

What to call an army of 20,000? By Ruth Walker, 3 November 2005 (scroll down to the bottom of the page):
http://blogs.csmonitor.com/verbal_energy/2005/11/index.html

US troops, security contractors increasingly at odds in Iraq. Detained contractors say they were "abused, humiliated" by troops after recent confrontation. By Tom Regan, 13 June 2005: http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0613/dailyUpdate.html

Private firms take on more military tasks. By Ann Scott Tyson, 2 April 2004: http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0402/p03s01-usmi.html

US global military presence. By Alan Messmer, 18 March 2004: http://weblogs.csmonitor.com/liblog/2004/03/index.html#a0001058050

The rise of the private-sector military. In era of shrinking armed forces, America turns to private firms to carry out foreign military aid. By Justin Brown, 5 July 2000: http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2000/07/05/fp3s1-csm.shtml