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...watched as a barometer of how much accountability there actually is for security contractors operating in Iraq. So far, the answer is very little. Justice Department lawyers are still unsure what U.S. law, if any, could be used to bring charges in the case. A previous incident on Christmas Eve where an intoxicated security contractor allegedly shot and killed an Iraqi guard was referred to the Department of Justice months ago, and no charges have yet been filed...
...Attiya, whose government is pouring billions of dollars from energy windfalls into vast infrastructure and education projects, spoke on the eve of the 6th Doha Conference on Natural Gas. He outlined Qatar's phenomenal rise within the global energy industry, which has seen the country become the world's largest supplier of liquefied natural gas as well as remaining a major oil producer. LNG production has gone from zero to 32 million tons annually and is expected to hit 77 million tons by 2010. Qatari oil production, meanwhile, has jumped from 350,000 barrels per day in 1995 to nearly...
...Provisional Authority, granted private contractors a complicated immunity scheme. While the order was supposedly not intended to give contractors “blanket immunity,” no contractors have been prosecuted in three years, even the drunk Blackwater guard who allegedly killed an Iraqi security official on Christmas Eve last year. And just yesterday the Associated Press reported that the State Department has given Blackwater personnel involved in the Sept. 16 incident immunity from prosecution.The State Department recently announced that they would install video cameras in Blackwater convoys to check up on these officers. This action is a step...
Apples have always been tempting. First for Eve, now for college students...
...Meanwhile, the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (OSAPR), ostensibly a counseling and support group, this month prepares for a production of Eve Ensler’s impolite and immodest play, “The V----- Monologues.” One would suppose no logical connection exists between reducing sexual violence and artistic interpretations of sexual empowerment—but the paper-pushers at OSAPR evidently do not care much for logic. Only those debilitated by the postmodern disciplines could interpret the mandate of a rape-counseling resource to include staging dramatic performances filled with lurid language and graphic...