U.S. widely uses mercenary 'contractors' in Afghanistan and Iraq

According to American sources referring to a report of the US Congress entitled, The Department of Defense's Use of Private Security Contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan: Background, Analysis, and Options for Congress. Moshe Schwartz. Specialist in Defense Acquisition, the mercenary armed formations, the so-called "contractors", are getting casualties in Afghanistan on the orders above the regular troops, about 4 - 4,5.

Now there are more than 200,000 "private militants" in Afghanistan and in Iraq who have the status of the so-called "contractors".

The US congress plans to bring the number of professional groups of mercenaries in Afghanistan to 160 thousand.

The actual number of US citizens there is about 10%. It looks like this.

In Afghanistan there are 112,092 contractors, 16,081 of which are US citizens, nationals of third countries there are 17 512, locals - 78 499. This information is incomplete and reflects only those who work for the Pentagon.

In addition, there are other US armed formations: the NSA, CIA and even the FBI. American punitive structure FBI claims that it has the right to operate only within the US, but according to sources, it is a lie.

In Afghanistan the FBI has a very large number of its own militants. In addition, the US Customs Service and a huge number of other allegedly purely domestic American structures are actively operating in the America-occupied Muslim countries.

In Afghanistan, 28,493 of the 112,092 contractors are "working", that is directly involved in military operations, for the US Department of Defense, or 25% of the number of "private militants".

16,831 or 15% are formally working for a puppet "Ministry of Defense of Afghanistan", but in real they are working for the formations of NATO aggressors from ISAF.

37,233 or 33% are working in the engineering corps of the American army.

The remaining 29 535 (27%) of contractors are working in Karzai's defense ministry. They support the defense of the rear, complementing the Air Force and servicing a variety of weapons systems and livelihoods, protect convoys, while being under the command of NATO and participating in so-called special operations.

Statistics of record keeping for losses of private foreign "contractors" is stored in the firms that sign contracts with them. And they clearly do not distribute losses of Western-recruited militants, as this can badly affect the business.

Further information can be found under the insurance that Pentagon pays the private contractors who carry out the order the Pentagon, for example, worked as instructors for the Karzai puppet forces or engaged in other activities.

These are separate categories of people - most of them retired servicemen (i.e. Americans). But there is something wrong with them also.

For example, from 2001 to 2010 the US Department of Labor, which takes care of war veterans, 44,000 private "contractors", i.e. militants, and the official US military is no more than 40 thousand, appealed for support in connection with the injuries / wounds.

Department of Monitoring

Kavkaz Center