Tag Archives: Iraq

Operation Rent Seeking

Operation Rent Seeking Lofgren, Mike Washington Monthly 03-01-2015 Operation Rent Seeking How the war on terrorism became a business model. Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War by James Risen… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading

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Abu Ghraib and the Perversion of the Political Question Doctrine

Abu Ghraib and the Perversion of the Political Question Doctrine By Steve Vladeck Friday, June 19, 2015 at 8:02 AM I’ve written extensively about the important and complex legal questions raised… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading

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Iraq’s Falcon Group New CSR Program to Help the Country

Stories6.11.2015 Iraq’s Falcon Group New CSR Program to Help the Country Erbil-Iraq: 11 Jun, 2015 – Since the beginning of the Islamic State’s (ISIS) hostilities against Kurdistan, which began in August… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading

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Simon Mann: ‘We can use mercenaries to defeat Isil’

Simon Mann: ‘We can use mercenaries to defeat Isil’ The former SAS man who plotted the disastrous ‘Wonga coup’ says a private army could be used to defeat Iraq’s jihadist Simon… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading

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An Analytical Evaluation of Contingency Contracting Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan: Capturing Critical Corporate Knowledge for the Future

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An analytical evaluation of contingency contracting operations in Iraq and Afghanistan: corporate knowledge for the future

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How ISIS Capitalizes on Horrors of Blackwater and Abu Ghraib

How ISIS Capitalizes on Horrors of Blackwater and Abu Ghraib Lina Khatib Op-Ed April 15, 2015 CNN Summary The self-proclaimed Islamic State is using past Western transgressions in Iraq to justify… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading

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KBR Files Sanctions Motion Against Feds

KBR Files Sanctions Motion Against Feds Miriam Rozen, Texas Lawyer June 4, 2015    | istockphoto.com Kellogg Brown & Root filed a motion for sanctions against the federal government, one month before… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading

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PMSCs and the Regulatory Environment in Iraq Post-2011

4 June 2015 PMSCs and the Regulatory Environment in Iraq Post-2011 How have tighter government regulations and corporate demands affected the private military and security companies (PMSCs) operating in Iraq? Jason… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading

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This Guy From Baltimore is Raising a Christian Army to Fight ISIS…What Could Go Wrong?

In late February, a Baltimore-born, self-proclaimed freedom fighter named Matthew VanDyke beamed into Greta Van Susteren’s Fox News show from Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s Kurdish region. A few days earlier,… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading

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