Iraq Coalition Casualty Statistics/Private Contractors

'''Iraq Coalition Casualty Statistics regarding Private Military Corporations are currently in the headlines.


 * April 13 2004: "The Star" Baghdad - At least 80 foreign mercenaries - security guards recruited from the United States, Europe and South Africa and working for American companies - have been killed in the past eight days in Iraq.


 * At least 18,000 mercenaries, many of them tasked to protect US troops and personnel, are now believed to be in Iraq, some of them earning $1,000 (about R6 300) a day. But their companies rarely acknowledge their losses unless - like the four American murdered and mutilated in Fallujah three weeks ago - their deaths are already public knowledge.

SourceWatch Resources

 * coalition of the willing
 * coalition of the willing: beginning of the end
 * Coalition Provisional Authority
 * Iraqi unified resistance
 * New Iraq
 * Operation Iraqi Freedom: Year Two
 * Post-war Iraq
 * Shiite Muslim uprising in Iraq
 * U.S. Central Command