Private Armies, Reprise (Updated) 0
I wrote about private armies earlier.
Now comes the Washington Post with an story on their shadowy world of lawlessness (by which I mean, they are subject to no law–and they act like it).
The U.S. military has brought charges against dozens of soldiers and Marines in Iraq, including 64 servicemen linked to murders. Not a single case has been brought against a security contractor, and confusion is widespread among contractors and the military over what laws, if any, apply to their conduct. The Pentagon estimates that at least 20,000 security contractors work in Iraq, the size of an additional division.
Private contractors were granted immunity from the Iraqi legal process in 2004 by L. Paul Bremer, head of the Coalition Provisional Authority, the U.S. occupation government.
Addendum, 4/16/2007:
