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  News media articles published since 1999: these articles track the evolution of the Private Military and Security Companies field, as well as the different questions and issues raised over the last decade of the debate. For daily news, please go to the HOME page and click on the options offered on the right panel. For topical reports, visit our DIGG community. To conduct you own search, visit the NEWS AGENCIES page.  
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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

Interested in private maritime security? We are too, e-mail us your suggested links!

 

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

For a list of firms taking on military tasks, visit the COMPANIES pages

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

 

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