BREAKING NEWS – US Mercenaries Are Sent To Iraq

[Purveyor]

THE LEVANT - Barack Obama may have ruled out sending “boots on the ground” back to Iraq but in the face of a growing threat from the Islamic State (IS), the Pentagon appears to have hit upon a way to get them back in by the back door.

The US Army’s Contracting Command has issued a tender notice for companies capable of deploying security assistance mentors and advisers in Iraq.

These individuals would be required for a 12-month contract, potentially extendable to a total of 36 months.

They are needed as consultants to the US “Office of Security Assistance in Iraq” and must be “cognisant of the goals of … reducing tensions between Arabs and Kurds, and Sunnis and Shias”.

Some 40,000 private security contractors formed a disparate mercenary army of mostly westerners during the American-led occupation of Iraq.

Many had secret contracts to work with the Central Intelligence Agency and alongside US and British special forces to provide intelligence and guard forces.

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[msongs]

1. sure so long as the Iraqis are paying for it and not us taxpayers nt

[Purveyor]

2. HA. As they paid for our 'liberation' of Iraq after the illegal US invasion?

We will get our 'just dues' someday and most of us won't like it but it will be 'well deserved'.

Karma can be a bitch, indeed.

[newfie11]

6. So right you are!!!!! Nt

[blkmusclmachine]

3. Is BlackWater/Xe/whatever still in the "Security" business???

[Comrade Grumpy]

4. Do these count as "boots on the ground"?

[ManiacJoe]

5. No, because they are not US military.

[PragmaticLiberal]

9. Not as far as I'm concerned...but I'm sure others may differ.

[KittyWampus]

10. IMO, no. But they will be expensive and they won't abide by military rules.

[Javaman]

7. Calling in the Hessians. nt

[Puzzledtraveller]

8. Outsourcing

I wonder if they have a customer service line if you are not happy with your gun for hire.

[woo me with science]

11. Of course.

Representative government, my ass.

[woo me with science]

12. k&r