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...Asian soldiers in Iraq, of course, are not combat troops. But even though Asians have been assiduous in showing Iraqis they are there to rebuild the country, not fight a war, all Asian solders ultimately serve under U.S. command in the "coalition of the willing." And many Asian troops?the Thai, Mongolian and Filipino soldiers, in particular?are deployed in some of the most incendiary parts of Iraq. It's not hard, then, to imagine how a band of discontented Iraqis might target, say, an Asian medic or aid worker as a substitute for an American soldier. "The kidnapping...
...soldiers. For Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, keeping the troops in Iraq is in part a matter of pride. The 550 members of the country's Ground Self-Defense Force in the southern Iraqi city of Samawah are the first Japanese soldiers to serve in a full-fledged combat zone since the end of World War II, after which the defeated nation signed a peace constitution forbidding an offensive military. Beyond fixing water-purification plants, the Japanese soldiers are emblems of a country whose leader is determined to normalize its military after more than a half-century in purgatory. Still, with...
...went from a humanitarian mission to combat. It's just amazing that the kids I talked with two, three days ago are the same ones that are throwing the rocks at us as hard as they can." 1st Lieut. DAVE SWANSON, a U.S. soldier, on the recent surge of Shi'ite resistance to U.S. forces in Iraq...
...military backgrounds, the four victims were not shy, retiring types. They were in Iraq because they wanted to be there, and they were under no illusions about just how dangerous it could be. Scott Helvenston, 38, was a former Navy SEAL who had appeared on the reality-TV show Combat Missions and was seeking to carve out a life for himself beyond the military, says friend George Ciganik, a former Marine reconnaissance officer. Working for Blackwater was about as close to combat as Helvenston and the others like him could get. "We're adrenaline seekers," says Ciganik, "passionate about freedom...
...government contractors to the U.S. administrator in Iraq, L. Paul Bremer--is largely being done by private security companies stocked with former soldiers looking for good money and the taste of danger. Pentagon officials count roughly 20 private companies around the world that contract for security work, mainly in combat areas. They are finding plenty of it in Iraq. Scott Custer, a co-director of Custer Battles, based in Fairfax, Va., says as many as 30,000 Iraqis and "several thousand expats" are working for private outfits in Iraq. Security contractors make a lot more than the average soldier...