| CANADA: Our side of defence
by Jorge Barrera, The Ottawa Times August 20th, 2006 Ottawa may have the reputation of a government town, but it's also home to Canada's military-industrial complex. |
| US: Pentagon Orders Investigation Of Cunningham's MZM Earmark by Walter Pincus , Washington Post March 24th, 2006 Undersecretary of Defense Stephen A. Cambone ordered an internal study of how funding earmarked in a bill by then-Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-Calif.) led to contracts for MZM Inc. to do work for the Pentagon's new agency: the Counterintelligence Field Activity. |
| IRAQ: Increase in Contracting Intelligence Jobs Raises Concerns by Walter Pincus, The Washington Post March 20th, 2006 By using contract employees for intelligence work, government agencies lose control over those doing this sensitive work and an element of profit is inserted into what is being done. Also, as investigations have revealed, politics and corruption may be introduced into the process. |
| US: AS US Falter in Iraq, China Gains by Tom Plate , The Seattle Times August 23rd, 2005 It looks as if history will judge Mahathir to have been the wiser of the two owls. The U.S. military is enmeshed in a vicious insurgency and there may be no way out — except, in fact, to get out, outright. |
| US: Lockheed Martin Is Hired to Bolster Transit Security in N.Y. by Sewell Chan and Shadi Rahimi, The New York Times August 23rd, 2005 A new world of transit security in New York City began to take form this morning, as officials disclosed plans to saturate the transit system with 1,000 video cameras, 3,000 motion detectors and a wide array of sophisticated gadgets, all intended to buffer the city's subways, bridges and tunnels from a terror attack. |
| Iraq: CACI Probed on Keeping Future Government Contracts by Chelsea Emery, Reuters May 27th, 2004 Federal officials are investigating whether employees of defense contractor CACI International Inc. were involved in prisoner abuse in Iraq and whether the company should remain eligible for government contracts, CACI said on Thursday. |
| Iraq: Titan's Army contract under review by Bruce V. Bigelow, San Diego Union-Tribune May 27th, 2004 The Army command that hired San Diego's Titan Corp. to provide Arabic linguists to units in Iraq is evaluating whether the lucrative contract should be awarded to another company. |
| Iraq: CACI Contracts Blocked by Ellen McCarthy, Washington Post May 26th, 2004 The Interior Department's inspector general is reviewing the contracting procedures that allowed the Army to hire civilian interrogators in Iraq and has blocked the Army from using the contract to place new orders with Arlington-based CACI International Inc., an agency spokesman said yesterday. |
| Iraq: Contractors Implicated in Prison Abuse Remain on the Job by Joel Brinkley and James Glanz, New York Times May 4th, 2004 More than two months after a classified Army report found that two contract workers were implicated in the abuse of Iraqis at a prison outside Baghdad, the companies that employ them say that they have heard nothing from the Pentagon, and that they have not removed any employees from Iraq. |
| Iraq: CACI to Open Probe of Workers by By Renae Merle and Ellen McCarthy, Washington Post May 3rd, 2004 Defense contractor CACI International Inc. said yesterday it launched an independent investigation of its employees in connection with allegations that Iraqi detainees were abused by U.S. soldiers at an Army-run prison in Iraq. |
| Iraq: Prisoner Abuse Appears More Extensive
by T. Christian Miller, Los Angeles Times May 2nd, 2004 At least one Iraqi prisoner died after interrogation, some were threatened with attack dogs and others were kept naked in tiny cells without running water or ventilation, according to an account written by a military police sergeant who is one of six U.S. soldiers charged in a growing scandal over prisoner abuse in Iraq. |
| Iraq: Prison Workers Questioned by T. Christian Miller and Greg Miller, Los Angeles Times May 1st, 2004 CACI International of Arlington, Va., said the employees had volunteered to be interviewed in a case in which six U.S. soldiers have been charged with sexually and physically abusing Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad. |
| Iraq: Trade Fair Postponed Over Security Fears by Joshua Chaffin and Salamander Davoudi, Financial Times April 1st, 2004 The deteriorating security situation in Iraq has prompted the postponement of a US-led trade fair aimed at accelerating reconstruction in the country amid heightening concerns about the safety of foreign civilians working there. Organisers of Destination Baghdad Expo, that was due to begin on Monday, postponed the event following the gruesome killings on Wednesday of four western contract workers in the city of Falluja. |
| US: Opens Probe Into Contractor Titan Corp. by Renae Merle , Washington Post March 6th, 2004 The Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into whether San Diego defense contractor Titan Corp. made illegal payments to international consultants, endangering Lockheed Martin Corp.'s plan to buy the firm. |
| US: Army, Industry Speed Document Exploitation by Ann Roosevelt, Defense Daily February 10th, 2004 The Army has enlisted The Sytex Group, Inc.'s Sytex unit and American Management Systems [AMSY] to aid soldiers in Iraq translate and manage captured foreign documents with the Document and Media Exploitation (DOMEX) Tactical Support Suite (TSS). |
| Iraq: Bay Area civilian vanishes in Iraq by Colin Freeman, San Francisco Chronicle November 11th, 2003 A Moss Beach man working as a contractor for the U.S. Army in Iraq has mysteriously disappeared while driving along an isolated road north of the country's violence-plagued Sunni Triangle. |
| Afghanistan: Ex-SAS man framed for Kabul killings by Lucy Morgan Edwards, Sunday Times (London) June 15th, 2003 A BRITISH man held in jail in Kabul and accused of killing two Afghans in a mysterious shoot-out in his hotel bedroom has declared his innocence. |
| Georgia: US Privatizes Military Aid by Nick Paton Walsh, Guardian (London) June 6th, 2003 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, embellishing an eastward expansion that has enraged Moscow. |
| USA: Spying for Fun and Profit by Kari Lydersen, Alternet May 28th, 2003 Survelliance technologies raise serious questions about invasions of privacy and violations of civil liberties. They also cost a lot of money. Taxpayers fund this massively beefed up security. Private corporations and even individuals are also paying large amounts to boost their own security procedures in light of the war on terrorism. Naturally, someone is also profiting off this boom. |
| Iraq: Plugging Into The Networked War by Diane Brady , Business Week April 21st, 2003 When Frank C. Lanza pictures combat in Iraq, he sees the invisible links connecting the electronics installed on fighter jets and tanks to commanders sitting hundreds, even thousands, of miles away. He sees dumb bombs made "smart," and unmanned vehicles that can assess Saddam's strongholds. On the home front, the CEO of L-3 Communications Corp. already sees his company's equipment handling tasks ranging from airport security to training first responders for terrorist attacks. And after the war, he foresees helping to rebuild a shattered Iraq with L-3's networked software and infrastructure consultants. |