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...telling that this watershed moment involved American employees of a private security contractor. Of all the changes in tactics that have made the war in Iraq distinct from prior U.S. engagements, perhaps no shift is as profound as the massive hiring--and varied deployment--of private contractors in combat zones. There are an estimated 100,000 contractors in Iraq, compared with a fraction of that the last time the U.S. was fighting there, and they are not working in just mess halls. They are bodyguards for vips, snipers in the field, translators and interrogators. They man checkpoints at Army bases...
...aging F-15 Eagle as the Air Force's top fighter plane. But about a third of the way through the Feb. 10 flight, anomalies began affecting the Global Positioning System and communications links on the jets, Air Force officials say. While one pilot was able to contact prime contractor Lockheed Martin during the flight to try to fix the problem, the planes were nevertheless forced to return to Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii. They forlornly had to follow the KC-135 aerial tankers that were to have refueled them during the trans-Pacific flight...
...years. Then, on Feb. 24, another Broncos player, Damien Nash, collapsed and died. More grisly but no less shocking was the death that same day of a Denver Zoo employee, Ashlee Pfaff, 27, who was mauled by a jaguar. "It has just been relentless," says Carey Zier, a Denver contractor who has lived in the city for all 50 of his years. "I've never seen anything like it. Very unsettling...
INDICTED. Childhood pals Brent Wilkes, 52, a defense contractor, and Kyle (Dusty) Foggo, 52, former executive director of the CIA; on fraud and other charges surrounding a contract for bottled water for CIA officers in Iraq; in connection with the corruption probe that sent ex-Congressman Randy Cunningham to prison last year; in San Diego. Wilkes was separately charged with conspiring to bribe Cunningham to win deals...
...made him fly back from his new home in Washington, D.C., to New Mexico for settlement talks that Carpenter says wouldn't even have paid his lawyers' fees. They buried him and his lawyers in discovery documents. But Carpenter, who since had his security clearance restored and is a contractor with another federal agency, never wavered. In that quintessentially American way, he still wanted his day in court. Along the way, he became a minor cult hero among networks geeks and stubborn patriots...