European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 17, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Page 4 stars and stripes Mideast june 2007 ii Wien you see the number of my people Ivhon have been the american Public should recognize that every one of them represents an american Soldier or Marine or Sailor who didst have to go in harms Jack Holly logistics reconstruction logistics directorate of the corps of engineers in Security contractors fight an unknown War by Steve Fainaru the Washington Post Baghdad private Security funded by billions of dollars in military and state department Are fight ing insurgents on a widening scale in enduring daily at returning fire and taking hundreds of casualties that have been under reported and some times according to and iraqi officials and company while the military builds up troops in an ongoing Campaign to secure the Security out of Public Are engaged in a parallel boosting adding expensive Armor and stepping up evasive action As attacks in the officials and company representatives one in seven Supply convoys protected by private forces has come under attack this according to previously unreleased statistics one Security company reported nearly 300 hostile actions in the first four the majority of the More than 100 Security companies operate outside of iraqi in part be cause of bureaucratic delays and corruption in the iraqi govern ment licensing Accord ing to the Security Industry enor Mous growth has been facilitated by the which uses the to contractors to offset chronic troop armed contractors protect All con Voys transporting reconstruction including weapons and ammunition for the iraqi army and they guard key military installations and provide personal Security for at least three commanding including air Force Darryl who oversees military contract ing in Iraq and in kind of practising what i preach Scott said in an interview on the use of private Secu Rity forces for such in a two Star but in not the most important Guy in the Multi National if its a Lowe prior Ity Mission and its within the capabilities of private this is an appropriate risk the military plans to outsource at least billion in Security operations this including the three largest Security contracts in Iraq a theater wide contract to protect bases that is Worth up to according to Scott a contract for up to million to provide intelligence for the army and personal Security for the army corps of Engi neers and a contract for up to million to protect reconstruction the army has also tested a plan to use private Security on military convoys for the first a shift that would significantly increase the presence of armed contractors on Iraq dangerous officials and Security com Pany representatives emphasized that contractors Are strictly limited to defensive but company representatives in the Field said insurgents rarely distinguish Between the military and private drawing the con tractors into a bloody and escalating the military has never re leased Complete statistics on con tractor casualties or the number of attacks on privately guarded the military deleted casualty figures from reports issued by the reconstruction logistics directorate of the corps of Engi according to Victoria who served As Deputy director for logistics until 2006 and spent years in Wayne described Security con tractors As the Unsung heroes of the she said she believed the military wanted to hide information snowing that private guards were fighting and dying in Large numbers because it would be perceived As bad it was like there was a major War being fought out but we were the Only ones who knew about Wayne after a year of protests by Wayne and logistics director Jack a retired Marine the casualty figures were include in an operational overview up dated last the logistics directorate reported that 132 Security contractors and truck Drivers had been killed and 416 wounded since fall four Security con tractors and a truck Driver remained and 208 vehicles were Only convoys registered with the logistics directorate Are counted in the Statis and the total number of casualties is believed to be when you see the number of my people who have been the american Public should recognize that every one of them represents an american Soldier or Marine or Sailor who didst have to go in harms Holly said in an Musa Deq an afghan Security agent carries his heavy machine gun at the site of a suicide attack saturday in a suicide car bomber attacked a killing at least four afghan officials 4 killed As car bomber hits a Convoy in Kabul i kills civilian in sparking protests by Rahim Faiez the associated press Afghanistan a suicide car bomber at tacked a Convoy of american contract workers and military personnel in the afghan capital on Satur killing at least four officials a Soldier opened fire killing one civilian and sparking an angry saturdays blast killed the wrecked a taxi and other nearby and shattered windows of Roadside Homes and Sheldon a spokesman for troops training afghan police and said american contract workers and military personnel were in the a spokesman at the base at Bagram said workers with who Are helping train afghan were Smith said the coalition never intentionally endangers the lives of innocent afghan civilians but that the Taliban routinely and intentionally uses explosive devices in heavily populated Taliban spokesmen have warned afghan civilians to avoid military but suicide bombings commonly kill or wound far More civilians than military targets a fact nato repeatedly Points the amerian Soldier in a humvee mistakenly opened fire on the crowd after the suicide killing one civilian and wounding said Zalmai Deputy Kabul police a crowd of 50 to 100 people with some chanting death to America and jabbing their arms at get legally married while deployed Usa marriage certificate recognized by military no travel required completed in 3 weeks personalized service do the right thing Contact Sam or Barbara Call 0016103535381 toll free 8774822406  they Are against they Are against said Abdul Zabiullahs who claims to speak for the said the militant group was behind the Kabul has been spared the worst of this years bloodshed that has claimed lives so mostly according to an a count based on Fig ures from and afghan in saturdays witnesses gave a higher Casu Alty count than saying seven or eight people had we were Busy with our work making window i heard a very Strong and when i turned around i saw a big fire in the said Mohammed who owns a nearby carpentry Noor said he helped four seriously wounded peo ple into cars to ferry them to he said at least seven people were killed and 10 were wound a Soldier in the coalition was killed when a rocket propelled grenade struck his vehicle saturday in uru Zgan the coalition the soldiers nationality was not the afghan ministry of defense said three soldiers were killed by a Roadside bomb in Hel Mand province on it also said three terrorists an a chechen and a pakistani were killed during a raid in Patika province on