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| Mon, 12 Jun 2006 19:23:41 EDT Military contractors make billions on the front line |
| Private military contractors are earning billions of dollars in Iraq -- much of it from U.S. taxpayers. The government says it cannot provide a total amount for the contracts -- many of which are secret -- but industry experts estimate Iraq's security business costs tens of billions of dollars. The work, which includes protecting people and transport convoys, is dangerous or, as one contractor put it: "It sounds crude, but basically our job is to be a bullet sponge." |
| Mon, 12 Jun 2006 18:10:34 EDT Alberto evacuations ordered |
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| Mon, 12 Jun 2006 18:17:15 EDT Poll: Zarqawi death bumps war opinion |
| More Americans expressed optimism about the war in Iraq after the killing of terrorist mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, suggests a CNN poll released Monday, but a majority still believes the invasion was a mistake. |
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