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[words to ponder] Multi-National Private Contractors in Iraq and Beyond Cost Over ...: It also noted that one out of every $5 spent on the Iraq war went to contractors - 20% of all funding for operations in Iraq. However, there were no reliable audits of or controls on spending during the first years of the war, so it is difficult to determine the exact amount of money the war has cost the United States.
[Middle East News and Comment] links for 2008-08-13: Since 1985, the United States has provided nearly $3 billion in grants annually to Israel. Over the years, Israel has developed an advanced industrial economy which, according to the World Bank, places it among the top 50 richest nations in terms of per capita income (between Cyprus and Slovenia respectively).
[The CNN Wire] CBO eyes contractors in Iraq: Between 2003 and 2007, 70 percent of the $85 billion worth of contracts were for work inside Iraq. The other 30 percent went to contracts in surrounding countries such as Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, the report said.
[John the Revelator] So THATS where all our money went!: The CBO report says its analysis shows: * the US spent between $6bn and $19bn on security work in Iraq * about 25,000 to 30,000 people work for security firms in Iraq - of these, 10,000 work directly for the US government and up to 25,000 for the Iraqi government * the costs of a private security contract are similar to those of a US military unit performing a similar job, although during peacetime the private contract would not have to be renewed.
[Pat Dollard | Young Americans] General Petraeus Hails SAS Aafter Iraq Success Over Al-Qaeda Car ...: As part of the transition process, he has travelled around the region over the past six months, including visits to Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey, offering information on the situation in Iraq and also establishing new relations with a view to his future role.
[ombwatch Blogs] CBO Report Tallies Expenditures on Contracting in Iraq: *A region in the Middle East including Iraq, Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates
[The Open Piehole] CBO Estimates Pentagon Has Spent $85 Billion on Contractors: CBO estimates that, as of early 2008, there were at least 190,000 private contractors or subcontractors working on U.S.-funded projects in the Iraq theater, which includes Iraq, Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates. Most of the work performed by contractors, according to CBO, deals with logistical support, construction projects, food services and providing petroleum products.
[Civilization Fanatics' Forums] Proposed Timeline: 2058 - By the time of the 2058 Phnom Penh Coup, the ELF had spread into other regions of the Far East, including the reconstituted eastern-most Indian provinces, the nations of Bangladesh, Malaysia, and Indonesia, and finally, the People’s Republic of China. Through clever use of nascent nationalist sentiments, the ELF was able to successfully incite civil unrest and anti-government militant movements in the Guanxi Autonomous Region, as well as additional militant nationalist/anti-government movements in Xinjiang-Uyghur and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regions, and the border zones in Yunnan Province.
[sharonkaysobotta's Blog] A Glimpse of the World Through Middle Eastern College Students' Eyes: This March I happened to be in Doha, Qatar, the neighboring country to Saudi Arabia, the country where soldiers sometimes go before being deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan and the potential site of the 2016 Olympics during the five-year anniversary of the war in Iraq. Curious about what is on the minds of women on the side of the world that is in the forefront of world news, I spent a day chatting with students at the University of Qatar.
[The Congress Blog] Contractors reap 85 bln dlrs from Iraq war: US report: which includes neighboring countries to Iraq such as Saudi Arabia and other nearby states such as Qatar, where the US military maintains support operations.
[1read's Weblog] THE WORLD today!: OPEC said no decision will be made until the next meeting in Vienna on September 9, however Saudi Arabia, the world’s biggest oil exporter, is completing development of its giant Khursaniyah field soon, increasing its output capacity by up to 500.000 barrels a day and is willing to bring production and supplies from actually 9.450.000 barrels a day, already 300.00 barrels a day higher since last month, to a total of 9,7 Million barrels a day in July, or more if the market requires it! The kingdom, complying with a huge expansion program in its oil industry to increase its spare oil production capacity to up to 12,5 Million barrels a day by the end of 2009, said at a meeting with important producers and consumers on Sunday in Jeddah, it is capable to boost this level another 2,5 Million barrels a day to 15 Million barrels a day if needed. Saudi Arabia is concerned today’s record prices might damp economic growth and lead to a lower oil demand, improving countries their energy efficiency, developing alternative sources of energy, including nuclear power. Saud Arabia wants oil price stability in the global market, a fair oil price not hurting producers neither consumers, and is worried about harmony between buyers and sellers, asking consumer countries to take measures to control and stop speculations in the futures markets to bring oil prices down from the actual unreasonable high levels.
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[Wholeo blog] Stop World War Please: Asked about Cheney's proposal to kill Americans as part of a false flag attack to be blamed on Iran, Paul responded, "The sad part is a lot of people won't be surprisedÅ .it's tragic, it's sad, all we have to do is have one our ships hit and a bunch of Americans killed and one or two news stations say it was the Iranians and the country's going to be ready to go to war, they'd even be willing to call a draft to say we have to go to save Israel, we have to march in, so we need a draft - that's the worst part that I fear," said the Congressman. Back in January 2007, Paul voiced his fears on the House floor of a "contrived Gulf of Tonkin style incident that may well occur to gain popular support for an attack on Iran."During an appearance on the Alex Jones Show last month, Congressman Paul said that a strike on Iran has already been green lighted, judging from what his contacts in and around Congress were telling him."It is still totally bewildering to me when I see men and women in the Congress that I know and like doing this just to get along.
[Cao's Blog] blind moonbattery on McCain, Reform Institute, Iraq, etc.: so much, in fact, that the rationale for the Iraq war was based on Saddam’s violating UN Sanctions. Consider that world terrorism - and not one but numerous terrorist supporting states worse than Nazi Germany rising in the middle east with no interference from us; and then consider how dangerous a world it would be for us then.
[Riot 4 Austerity] Georgia, Russia, the West: Checkmate: In a future conflict with the West, Iran could mine the Straits, fire antiship missiles at tankers, do speedboat rocket attacks, and generally make the West's lives miserable. Of course the West could pound them hard, but not before the tanker traffic had slowed to a trickle, cutting off 40% of the world's traded oil - just a 5% decline in oil supply in the 1970s caused a recession in the West, what would 10 or 20 or 40% do?
[Eyes Wide Open International] STOP THE WAR ON IRAN =PLEASE SIGN=: "Despite the opposition of his own generals and widespread skepticism that America is ready to risk the military, political and economic consequences of an airborne strike on Iran, the president has given an "amber light" to an Israeli plan to attack Iran's main nuclear sites with long-range bombing sorties, the official told The Sunday Times.
[Global News Blog Headlines] Middle East News - 4000 US Deaths, and a Handful of Images: Some journalists say the American military is making a growing effort to control graphic war images from Iraq. Iran Chief Signals Atomic Expansion The country s president said Iran is running more than 5000 centrifuges for enriching .
[B!llicus !llicus_____ __ _ _ _] No Traction in the Middle East: That process, which has included two visits to Saudi Arabia by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, as well as his unprecedented participation at a Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit, is credited in major part to Saudi King Abdullah, who has made little secret of his aim -- contrary to that of the administration’s hawks -- to reduce Sunni-Shia tensions, that came to the fore after the Israel-Hezbollah war.
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