«The Pentagon is to privatise its military presence in Georgia by contracting a team of retired US military officers to equip and advise the former Soviet republic's crumbling military… a team of 20-30 private defence consultants are already in Tbilisi. Their employer, a Washington security firm, Cubic, has a three-year $15m contract with the Pentagon to support all aspects of the Georgian ministry of defence.»
Nick Paton Walsh. US privatises its military aid to Georgia // «The Guardian», Tuesday 6 January 2004
«two days before he left Iraq for good, L. Paul Bremer III, the Coalition Provisional Authority administrator, signed a blanket order immunizing all Americans, because, as one of his former top aides told me, „we wanted to make sure our military, civilians and contractors were protected from Iraqi law.“ … Nor can these private armies even be prosecuted in America under U.S. law. The Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act of 2000, which permits charges to be brought in U.S. courts for crimes abroad, apparently applies only to Defense Department contractors (and even then the administration has rarely used it). Blackwater and other security firms work for the State Department.»
Michael Hirsh. The Age of Irresponsibility. How Bush has created a moral vacuum in Iraq in which Americans can kill for free. // «Newsweek» от 20 сентября 2007
