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Story – The Diary Written By Slickest
A Story written by Slickest…
3rd Jan 2009
Met with Mrs Williams today at her office, she's a Chevron manager who happened to be very rich. She gave an appointment which I did not miss because of its sure outcome, got this cool diary from her and a sum of N30,000 which came in a shock(saturdays dey make sense), she's just being grateful once again for a job well done….I love my job.
Story – The Diary
Just arrived in my apartment expecting Onome who I called to come over, that girl is one nymphomaniac, she comes running when she sees my call… Good times ahead this wonderful saturday.
After writing this I'll be out to see my padis at the joint, Onome just left with a broad smile on her face, I made her N3,000 richer, no wonder she never misses my call. Off to take my bath after a very good sexx…
Today started well but didn't end well, Kako died today after so much time spent on his sick bed and so much money spent on his sickness, boys couldn't drink anything …paid last respect to Kako the best footballer area, I sure will miss him. RIP Kako…. Off to bed.
4th Jan 2009
Woke up drowsy but I'll be fine, I always wake up drowsy….had a nightmare that lasted throughout the night but am ok now(bad dream na normal tin 4ma side)…thinking of taking breakfast at Mama Onome's place, wicked yellow eba with serious draw soup…am getting fond of this diary, I like the set up ….off to the bathroom….
Argued a lot today at Mama Onome's place(mumu Fatai dey tok say nani better messi….say na opportunity Im no get….). I was there for more than two hours before I came home to take an afternoon nap….off to sleep.
On my bed …..(Dis diary just sweet to write on top)
Got a call from Kako's mother, she said it was important that my attention was needed as soon as possible… Curious though but I have to go……
My outing to late Kako's house is becoming fruitful, Kako's sister claimed she saw Kako's ghost in front of her room which made her scream to attract attention, that was why the help of a professional like me was needed…..its not easy to be a Paranormal Investigator…hehe
Another N20,000 awaits me for the cleansing of the house tomorrow, will need to go to the out skirt to get that perfume that chases ghosts…(Dem go chop me raw if they find out say na Pol Science I study for university..) Hehe…off to bed
5th Jan 2009
Just finished dressing up for Kako's house, I need money for the stuffs to be used in the casting out procedure,the perfume and that's all….(magas go everly dey pay)….off…
Still at the old man place somewhere in the outskirts(I no even sabi d name of d place…Asaba na wa ooo). Sitting close to the old man who is the keeper of the emporium containing all kinds of herbs for different functions. He told me to wait for new deliveries are arriving….(Waiting tinz….)
On awaiting delivery the old man inquired what I wanted the rare perfume for, he commented on my consistency of its purchase and spoke like he suspected I was in to voodoo, he advised I was too young to be a part of voodoo(I no do jazz na!!…am just being a sharp guy…).
Just ignored the 10th call from Kako's mother, she needed me over as soon as possible but this wait is not doing me any good.
On my way back to the city, the delivery just arrived and I have just purchased my product for N500…
Now in Kako's room with the door locked behind me (na to start to dey speak in tongues dey next..). I wonder how Kako's sister happens to be the only one seeing Kako's ghost, hope she doesn't have cerebral malaria?. I'll just spray the perfume round the house and say some words I don't understand for confusion.
Just finished convincing Kako's family that the ghost of their dead member is gone for good, I had to lie that I came in contact with him and that it was a fair fight of words and plead before I could get him to vacate the premises. On my way home now…
Just had time to rest now, got home about two and a half hours ago and met my house all messed up, my tv was broken and my furnitures were all shattered…still trying to convince myself it was a bugle because the lock to my door wasn't tampered with…its a mystery am trying not to see as one because nothing was taken instead all my stuffs were destroyed…(crazy ish)…
Done cleaning, need to take my bath and find something to eat…
Totally fond of this diary, taking it with me to the bukkah (Mama Onome's place)…
Kako's death brought so much absurdity to the area, the silence was so noticeable that an outsider would know something is not right. The canteen was so silent throughout my dinner time, no one said a word…indeed, we all miss Kako….never knew his real name till this afternoon when his mother told me his name was James… I should leave this place in a while…
There's something weird going on in my house, I got home at about past eight from Mama Onome's place and got the shock of my life…The whole house I rearranged after some mysterious activity had occurred in it was back the way I met it earlier, it was so scattered all my curtains were torn to pieces, my furnitures were totally annihilated but the lock to the entry of my boy's quarter was intact. Just finished packing the remnants of my belongings with the intention of disposing the destroyed parts tomorrow. What still baffles me is the football I saw at the centre of my living room…
To Be Continued…


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Warriors for Hire in Iraq
View part two of this article, "Outsourcing the War."
Last Wednesday, the United States woke up to what seemed like a horrible replay of the images from 1993 Somalia. As crowds screamed their vicious delight, the bodies of four Americans were abused and dragged through the streets.
But Fallujah was not Mogadishu, and this was to be no repeat of "Black Hawk Down." Instead of questioning the mission, the public struggled to figure out who was performing the mission in the first place. For most Americans, Fallujah introduced a realization of how our military operates today in the era of outsourcing. A growing industry of private military firms is filling a huge and often surprising array of roles in Iraq, roles that can even include combat.
The four men killed in Fallujah were not U.S. troops but
rather employees of a little known company, Blackwater USA, that resides
within an industry that until last week, few people even knew existed. Breaking
out of the "guns for hire" mold of traditional mercenaries,
corporations like Blackwater sell the sorts of services that soldiers used to
provide. Known as "private military firms" (PMFs), they range from
small companies that provide teams of commandos for hire to large corporations
that run military supply chains. This new military industry encompasses
hundreds of companies, thousands of employees, and billions of revenue dollars.
In Iraq, they're also accounting for a growing share of the
force and the casualties. There are 15,000 private personnel carrying out
mission-critical military roles, and they have suffered at least 30 to 50
killed in action, including the four dead contract workers whose bodies were
discovered on Tuesday. Scores more have been taken captive in just the last
The Bush administration was unwilling to enlist serious
assistance from the United Nations or from most of our NATO allies, but thanks
to the PMFs that employ private soldiers of more than 30 nationalities, it has
been able to assemble an international coalition of sorts in Iraq. But it is
more a "coalition of the billing" than of the "willing."
Indeed, there are more private military contractors on the ground in Iraq than
troops from any one ally, including Britain. One single company, Global Risks,
has a reported 1,100 employees in Iraq, including 500 Nepalese Ghurka troops
and 500 Fijian soldiers, ranking it sixth among troop donors.
Working in over 50 conflict zones, the industry is
emblematic of a broader globalization. PMFs and their clients are located
worldwide, but their single largest client is the U.S. taxpayer; our government
has signed over 3,000 contracts with private military firms in the last decade.
The reliance on this industry was driven by changes in the market after the end
of the Cold War. It boomed in an era of military downsizing (the U.S. military
is about one-third smaller than it was during the 1991 Gulf War) and the
increasing demands of new deployments, the more-technical requirements of
modern warfare, and privatization as a new vogue of government.
While Congress and the senior leadership at the Pentagon do
not have an exact handle on the numbers, an estimated 15,000 to 20,000 private
military personnel are in Iraq. They are carrying out essential jobs that
soldiers have done in the past—from handling logistics and maintenance to
training the local army to fighting pitched battles—and they have taken more
casualties than any ally. However, while performing tasks crucial to the operation,
they are not formally part of the force, creating a critical disconnect in such
areas as intelligence sharing, as well as confusion over rights and
responsibilities in the midst of combat.
The size and scope of the private military contingent in Iraq
also cut to the heart of the most troubling questions about the Bush
administration's handling of the war. They point up the administration's
inadequate planning and preparation, its lack of transparency about the war's
financial and human cost, and its sense of denial about whether it put enough
American troops on the ground to accomplish the task handed to them. The hiring
of such a large private force and the ensuing casualties that it has taken
outside of public awareness and discussion have served as a novel means for
displacing some of the political costs of the war. Even more troubling, the
growth of such an ad hoc market arrangement, lying outside the chain of
command, makes an already tough mission even more difficult, and risks lives on
both the troop and contractor side.
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Until Fallujah, the private military industry was largely
hidden behind the headlines, present in the world's hot spots but never fully
acknowledged. When a CIA plane mistakenly coordinated the shootdown of a
planeload of American missionaries over Peru in 2001, few realized that the
plane was manned by contractors for Aviation Development Corp., based in Alabama.
When suicide bombers attacked an American compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia,
last spring, few understood what it meant that the targets worked for Vinnell Corp., a Fairfax, Va.,
defense contractor that trains Saudi Arabia's and Iraq's armies. When
Palestinian militants killed three Americans in Gaza last fall, most didn't
realize that they were private military contractors working for DynCorp, a multifaceted government
services firm, based just outside the Washington-Dulles airport. When a
planeload of men was arrested in Zimbabwe last month, with the local regime
claiming they were picking up weapons on their way to an alleged coup plot in
Equatorial Guinea, few understood what it meant when they turned out to be
employees of Logo
Logistics, a PMF registered out of the British Virgin Islands. When the
State Department spokesman noted that President Aristide of Haiti left office
accompanied by his personal guards, he left out the part that Aristide had
outsourced his protection to the Steele Foundation, a San Francisco firm.
Though it's little more than a decade old, the privatized
military industry has an estimated $100 billion in annual global revenue. In
fact, with the recent purchase of MPRI
by a Fortune 500 firm, L-3, many
Americans already unknowingly own slices of the PMF industry in their 401Ks.
The firms' growth is also perhaps best evidenced in the way
they have begun to play the age-old Washington game of lobbying. Employing
mostly former senior government and military officers, the firms already enjoy
broad familiarity with the government contracting process as well as informal
connections with former colleagues and subordinates. But like any other mature
industry, PMFs also feel they must employ lobbyists and make political campaign
donations to stay ahead of each other. In 2001, 10 leading private military firms
spent more than $32 million on lobbying, while they invested more than $12
million in political campaign donations.
Among the leading donors were Halliburton, which gave more
than $700,000 from 1999 to 2002, 95 percent to Republicans, and DynCorp, which
gave more than $500,000, 72 percent to Republicans. Interestingly, Halliburton's
spending to influence policy declined after its former CEO Dick Cheney became
vice president. During the last two years of the Clinton administration, the
firm spent $1.2 million lobbying the Senate, House of Representatives, and
various executive branch departments. During the first two years of the Bush
administration, Halliburton reported spending just $600,000 (getting a much
better return on its investment, as its contracts roughly trebled).
But the large corporations are not the only ones that have
begun to play the game. With a now public profile, and growing congressional
scrutiny, Blackwater reportedly hired Alexander Strategy Group, one of the more
influential lobbying firms, just days after the contractors' deaths. Alexander
is run by Tom DeLay's former chief of staff, Ed Buckham, and also employed
DeLay's wife, Christine.
But the large corporations are not the only ones that have
begun to play the game. With a now public profile, and growing congressional
scrutiny, Blackwater reportedly hired Alexander Strategy Group, one of the more
influential lobbying firms, just days after the contractors' deaths. Alexander
is run by Tom DeLay's former chief of staff, Ed Buckham, and also employed
DeLay's wife, Christine.
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From the beginning, however, private contractors played key
roles in the war in Afghanistan. Their employees deployed with U.S. military
forces on the ground (including serving in the CIA paramilitary units that were
the first to hit the ground), maintained combat equipment, provided logistical
support, and routinely flew on joint surveillance and targeting aircraft. Even
the noted Global Hawk unmanned surveillance planes were operated by private
employees. The private firms' role in the region continues today, with
contractors now part of the CIA/military operation attempting to run down Osama
bin Laden and his associates along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
In other anti-terrorism operations around the globe, PMFs
have played similarly wide-ranging roles. The operations in the Philippines
against Islamic guerrillas have DynCorp working on logistics, while other members
of the firm are playing a more active role in anti-narcotics and
counter-guerrilla operations in Colombia. When the United States deployed a
military training contingent to the former Soviet republic of Georgia to help
root out radical Muslim terrorists, the team was mostly made up of PMF
employees. The Taliban and al-Qaida members unlucky enough to be caught can
plan on spending their next years housed in a military prison at Guantánamo
Bay, built not by U.S. soldiers but by the KBR division of Halliburton, and interrogated
by private contractors from firms like Titan.
In fact, the PMF industry was one of the few whose economic
outlook was improved rather than harmed by the 9/11 attacks. While the U.S. and
global economy suffered from the shock, the prices of PMFs listed on stock
exchanges jumped roughly 50 percent in value, with L-3's even doubling. A
number of firms were launched in the aftermath of the attacks, hoping to tap
the boom market. One example is Janusian,
a British venture that seeks to provide protection and intelligence against
terrorist attacks. "The war on terrorism is the full employment act for
these guys," one Defense Department official commented. "A lot of
people have said, Ding, ding, ding! Gravy train!"
But the Iraq War is where the history books will note that
the industry took full flight. Iraq is not just the biggest U.S. military
commitment in a generation but also the biggest marketplace in the short
history of the privatized military industry. In Iraq, private actors play a
pivotal role in great-power warfare to an extent not seen since the advent of
the mass nation-state armies in the Napoleonic Age.
Before the war, private firms helped out with an array of
tasks—operating supply lines, running training exercises, and even assisting
with the war gaming and battle planning in the Kuwaiti desert that later proved
so successful. The huge U.S. Army complex at Camp Doha, where the invasion was
launched, was built, operated and guarded by a vast private operation led by a
consortium called Combat Support
Associates. (While CSA was operating in Kuwait, firms in the consortium were
registered as "100 percent Native American-owned" and thus could use
Minority Business Enterprise certifications as a way to gain preference in the
government acquisition process.) These roles were not without their risks. Even
before the battle started, several private military personnel were killed or
wounded in live-fire exercises and, in a taste of what was to come, two
civilian technicians were murdered by terrorists in a drive-by shooting in Kuwait.
During the major combat operations phase of the Iraq War
last spring, private military employees handled everything from feeding and
housing U.S. troops to maintaining sophisticated weapons systems like the B-2
stealth bomber, F-117 stealth fighter, Global Hawk UAV, U-2 reconnaissance
aircraft, M-1 Tank, Apache helicopter, and air defense systems on numerous Navy
ships. While civilians had always accompanied U.S. forces on deployments, all
the way back to the sutlers who sold shoes and other consumer wares at Valley
Forge, never had the U.S. military been so reliant on outsiders to accomplish
its mission. Indeed, the pre-invasion ratio of private contractors to U.S.
military personnel in the Gulf was roughly 1 to 10 (10 times the ratio during
the 1991 war). Our allies, including the British and Australians, also depended
heavily on contracted support.
During the occupation of Iraq, the demand for private
assistance skyrocketed, particularly as the rosy scenarios made by political
appointees in the Pentagon before the war proved false. Presently, an estimated
15,000 or more private military contractors are on the ground in Iraq, working
for tens of companies and their subcontractors, providing tasks that only
soldiers once performed. The CPA estimates that after sovereignty is granted to
a largely nonexistent Iraqi government at the end of June, these figures may
rise to as high 30,000. Jobs such as guarding the Green Zone in Baghdad will be
privatized as well. We don't know the exact figures, because the Bush
administration maintains no formal tracking of the numbers. The very lack of
any accounting illustrates the dire need for better oversight and
Outsourcing has provided a novel means to reduce some of the
political costs of the war. Reserve call-ups are lessened and compromises with
allies unnecessary. Any public dismay over casualties is also dampened. Unlike
the formal reporting of U.S. military casualties, release of such information
is at the discretion of each individual firm. Just as no one knows the exact
number of private military contractor boots on the ground, so, too, does no one
know the number of killed and wounded. From a survey of industry insiders as
well as hometown press reports that sometimes announce the deaths, estimates
are that between 30 and 50 private military contractors have been killed in the
fighting in Iraq, with tens more killed in accidents. Assuming the rough ratio
of killed versus wounded that has held among U.S. troop casualties (1 to 6),
this means that upward of 200 to 300 private casualties have gone unreported on
the public ledger. That is more than the entire 82nd Airborne Division lost in Iraq
over the past year.
Private military firms carry out three crucial functions in Iraq:
military support, military training and advice, and certain tactical military roles.
It is important to note that official U.S. military doctrine has long held that
"mission critical" roles must be kept inside the force. It has also
held that civilians accompanying the force should not be put into roles where
they must carry or use weapons, allowing the carry of sidearms (that is,
pistols) only in the most extraordinary circumstances. But what used to be the
exception is now the rule.
Military support firms help with logistics and engineering,
as well as assisting with tasks such as tactical and non-tactical vehicle
maintenance and repair. The major player in this sector has been Dick Cheney's
former firm, Halliburton. Operating under the LOGCAP contract (Logistics
Civilian Augmentation Program), Halliburton has done about $6 billion worth of
business on Iraq contracts.
Many consider such tasks secondary and in line with the
broader military outsourcing of such ancillary jobs as lawn mowing at bases. But
they could not be more wrong when it comes to logistics. As official U.S.
military doctrine states, "Since the dawn of military history, logistical
capabilities have controlled the size, scope, pace, and effectiveness of
military operations … Logistical capabilities must be designed to survive and
operate under attack; that is, they must be designed for combat effectiveness,
not peacetime efficiency." Or, as Gen. Omar Bradley succinctly put it,
"Amateurs talk about strategy; professionals talk about logistics."
Bradley's view was proved right in the days after the
Fallujah attacks. In an e-mail obtained by Knight Ridder News, a senior U. S.
official in Iraq warned his superiors at the Pentagon's program management
office in Baghdad that Halliburton senior executives had said they were
"considering withdrawing from the country" because of security
concerns. The official noted that a cut in LOGCAP services by the firm would
cause the "complete collapse of the support infrastructure" of the
operation. Halliburton denied it was considering a withdrawal, while the CPA
would not comment. Regardless, it underscored how vulnerable military officers
felt the operation had become to outside corporate decision-makers.
As violence spread in the ensuing week, Halliburton and
other military support firms put their employees on "lockdown," and
operations were suspended in several key areas. After another fuel convoy was
ambushed and seven contractors went missing (one, Thomas Cahill, a dairy farmer
turned military convoy truck driver, is presently held captive, while four of
the civilians have since been found dead), movement by the firms effectively
ceased in large portions of Iraq, including the Kuwait-to-Baghdad supply run.
As they lie outside the military code of justice, constitutionally, the
military simply can not order these firms to take the risks and truck on as it
could have done with military units in the past. Officers have begun to worry
about what this will mean for critical fuel and supply stocks they depend on to
carry out their missions.
While its scope was debatable, the process behind LOGCAP
used to be fairly noncontroversial, as the original contract to provide field
logistics support to the U.S. Army was competitively bid out. However, eyebrows
began to rise when in the months just before the war, nonmilitary tasks such as
oil-well fire fighting and then oil field repair and operation were
noncompetitively added to the purview of military logistics. Thus, through
LOGCAP, Halliburton cornered the logistics and oil services market and has so
far gained a 62 percent jump in revenue.
While the defense has been made that Halliburton is the only
firm capable of such a job, it is important to note that Halliburton often acts
as a middle man, meaning the U.S. military outsources tasks to a firm that
outsources them further. Indeed, those who have seen the recent Halliburton
commercials on TV, showing proud American employees serving happy soldiers, would
be confused by who actually works at the firm's kitchens, usually third-world
nationals flown in from places like Bangladesh and the Philippines. The
contractor-subcontractor relationship has not always been a smooth one, with U.S.
forces at risk of the consequences. In February, several of the subcontractor
firms publicly complained that they had not been paid by Halliburton, despite
its huge revenue stream, and threatened to cut off food service to U.S. troops
until they were.
Other concerns in the military-support arena are overbilling
and quality assurance. As anyone familiar with construction or home repair will
attest, it is essential to have competition to determine the most efficient
contractor at the best price; it is also essential to maintain oversight to
prevent being bilked and getting shoddy work. In the military effort in Iraq,
this basic function has largely been AWOL, mainly as a result of poor planning
and the lack of military, as opposed to contractor, oversight funding. The
contract management office in Baghdad, for example, originally had five
personnel in charge of managing some $18 billion in contracting. It later added
nine more, leaving a still-daunting ratio of about $1.3 billion in oversight
per person, in the middle of probably the most confusing contract zone in
The result has been a series of snafus and suspected
swindling, best captured by the weekly drumbeat of financial scandals that Rep.
Henry Waxman, D-Calif., has unearthed about Halliburton contracts in Iraq. The
allegations circling the firm ranged from charging for tens of thousands of
meals never served to soldiers, to billing for inappropriate extras such as
adding the firm's logo to hand towels. But Halliburton was far from the only
firm about which these concerns were raised. An investigation by the Pentagon's
inspector general report found Pentagon procurement rules have not been
followed in 22 of 24 deals awarded by the Defense Contracting Command for
services in Iraq. One of the perhaps amusing examples was the U.S. taxpayer's
purchase of a Hummer H2 (the über-expensive SUV familiar from rap music videos)
for a SAIC program manager, which included payment for the charter of a DC-10
cargo jet to fly it to Iraq.
Military consulting firms represent another market sector
and carry out a number of military advisory and training services. The
responsibility of creating the post-Saddam police, paramilitary forces and army
has been outsourced to various firms. The importance of this work is without
dispute. The U.S. plan for disengagement from Iraq is dependent on the
formation of such local forces, and for decades they will be the operation's
institutional legacy.
DynCorp, a multibillion-dollar government services firm
based in Reston, Va., is the major player in the police training program. The
contract was originally awarded for $50 million but could be worth as much as
$800 million. While the firm relies on the federal government for about 96
percent of its business (it spends more than a million dollars a year on
lobbying and has written another dozen checks to the RNC in the last few
years), it has a decided public relations problem stemming from the sex-trade
scandal in the Balkans. Under two separate contracts in Bosnia and Kosovo, a
number of its employees were implicated in sex crimes and the black-market arms
trade, including its Bosnia site manager, who videotaped himself raping two
young women. Because of a gap in the law, none were ever criminally prosecuted,
and the whistleblowers
in the incident (as opposed to the perpetrators) later sued the firm after
they were fired. The firm has since set up an in-house screening program, which
it hopes will avoid such incidents in the future.
is in charge of the program for setting up a paramilitary guard force for Iraq's
oil fields, obviously key to starting up the economy. Given that it did not
exist before the war, Erinys surprised many established firms in the industry
by winning the $39.2 million contract. Then, the firm raised eyebrows by
importing many former South African soldiers and police who had worked for the
old apartheid regime. However, the contract has gone well; since it took charge
of operations, attacks on oil pipelines have declined. In little over four
months Erinys trained, armed and deployed more than 9,000 Iraqi guards across
the country. It plans to expand the force to nearly 15,000. Others credit not
the raw numbers but the sensible payoff of local tribal leaders to protect the
pipelines, much as what happened with the past regime.
Vinnell, MPRI and Nour USA have been engaged in training and equipping the new Iraq
army, a task whose cost could reach as high as $2 billion. Vinnell, a
subsidiary of Northrop Grumman, is notable for being the only firm targeted by
al-Qaida twice, having offices bombed in Saudi Arabia in 1996 and 2003. MPRI is
a firm of primarily former U.S. Army officers, all the way up to four-star
generals. The company's major client is training for the U.S. Army, but it has
also worked on contracts in Croatia, Bosnia, Nigeria and Afghanistan. Nour's
contract became particularly controversial when allegations surfaced that the
firm was linked with neoconservative darling Ahmed Chalabi, the Iraqi exile
leader many blame for the faulty intelligence used to whip up war sentiment in
the United States Despite having no operating history, the politically
connected firm is alleged by its competitors to have beaten out more
established firms by lowballing its contract by several hundred million
dollars. The contract has since been suspended and is now being re-awarded,
resulting in months of delay in the vital task of readying an Iraqi army. One
U.S. Army contracting officer remarked to Jane's Defense Weekly, " I've
been in Army contracting for 28 years and I've never heard of it happening like
In the shifting battlefield of Iraq, military support and
military consulting have become more dangerous. Unlike the firms in such places
as Bosnia or Kosovo, in Iraq these contractors have taken an increasing number
casualties. While these roles had originally been contemplated to lie outside
the battlefield, the front lines have become all-encompassing, bringing
everyone under fire. For example, Thomas Cahill, the struggling Mississippi
dairy farmer turned convoy truck driver captured by insurgents last week, was
doing a job quite similar to, and no less dangerous than, that carried out by Pvt.
Jessica Lynch. The only difference is that he is a private contractor and she
was regular Army. In response to the reality of these dangers, many of these
support contractors and consultants have armed themselves. With the U.S.
military unwilling to provide weapons, many are now turning to the black
But the most dramatic and controversial expansion of PMF
involvement is in the combat realm. Before Iraq, PMFs had fought in several
combat zones, the most notable being Executive Outcomes' participation in the Sierra
Leone and Angola wars. But Iraq is the first time that firms have played tactical
roles alongside large numbers of U.S. troops in the field.
In Iraq, tactical PMFs, also known as military providers,
play three key roles: They help defend key installations, protect key
individuals such as Coalition Provisional Authority head Paul Bremer, and
escort convoys. Each is obviously critical to the mission's success. If bases,
buildings and other key installations are captured or destroyed, if key leaders
like Bremer get killed, or if the supplies don't flow, then the operation
A listing of some 20 firms that offer such services is
available from the State Department's Iraq
travel Web site, but curiously does not mention Blackwater. The same issues
— the contractual process and the lack of oversight—suffuse this sector (in
one study of $58 million in protection contracts let by the CPA, five of six
contracts were no-bid). But the stakes are far higher than wasted taxpayer
Sometimes, these assignments are described euphemistically
as "private security" to make them sound less military. But these are
not private guards who stroll at the local shopping mall. They involve
personnel with military skills and weapons who carry out military functions,
within a war zone, against military-level threats. Custer Battles, for example,
is a Virginia firm that has the airport security contract in Baghdad. Airport
security in this context does not mean bored attendees standing by an X-ray
machine, but rather former Green Berets and Ghurka fighters defending the
airport from mortars, rockets and snipers.
In short, the roles performed by these firms entail the same
risks or even greater ones than those faced by U.S. military forces. As
fighting has spread, PMFs have been at the forefront. Blackwater, the firm that
lost the four men in Fallujah, just days later defended the CPA headquarters in
Najaf from being overrun by radical Shiite militia. The firefight lasted
several hours, with thousands of rounds of ammunition fired, and Blackwater
even sent in its own helicopters twice to resupply its commandos with
ammunition and to ferry out a wounded U.S. Marine. The same night, Hart Group,
Control Risks and Triple Canopy were all involved in pitched battles. Unfortunately,
the Hart position was overrun. Abandoned by nearby Coalition forces, the firm's
employees had to leave one of their comrades dead on a rooftop on which he and
four colleagues had been fighting after their house had been captured.
The extent of these firms' combat role is largely off
policymakers' radar screen. Not only is Congress woefully ignorant of the
contracts that its budgets have paid for, but senior Pentagon officials are, at
best, in self-denial about the depth of the outsourcing. When pressed on the
issue at a news briefing just days after the Fallujah deaths, Defense Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld's response was a prototypical nonsensical Rummyism.
Reporter: Why is the armed services privatizing armed
Rumsfeld: The armed services are not privatizing armed
Reporter: Those men were providing security for…
Rumsfeld: Society.
Reporter: A convoy.
Rumsfeld: The society is privatizing security.
Reporter: However you want to say it.
Likewise, discussions with high-ranking military officers
reveal that many at the most senior levels have not factored what privatization
means for operations on the ground. One high-ranking general involved in Iraq
operations at the Pentagon had not even heard of the battles above, let alone
the Blackwater firm, still contending that firms handled only secondary tasks
like K.P. duty. Indeed, when the command staff of CENTCOM toured the Najaf
battle site just hours after the heroic stand by the Blackwater employees,
their briefing did not even mention the key role of the firm in saving the day.
In a field that often lacks transparency and sometimes
includes shady characters, Blackwater is a firm with a reputation for
professionalism; it has never had a major allegation of malfeasance leveled
against it. Perhaps not coincidentally, it is also one of the few that has
opened up its facilities to the press.
Blackwater was originally located in the military training
sector and got its start in 1996. Founded by an ex-Navy SEAL, Gary Jackson, the
firm has a 5,200-square-acre facility located in tiny Moyock, N.C. Moyock may
be in the heart of North Carolina's Great Dismal Swamp, but it is just 25 miles south of Norfolk Naval Base. Blackwater's facility is the largest privately owned
firearms training complex in the nation, and many consider it to have the best
tactical shooting program. More than 50,000 personnel have gone through its
training, and experts ranging from SEALs to SWAT teams (the World SWAT
Challenge is held onsite) laud its facilities. In the current threat
environment, the firm has focused on anti-terrorism programs, such as signing a
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That's right, on Tuesday May 29th, a half sun will align itself with the city's 201-year-old grid at 8:17 PM, creating a wonderful view of the sunset along every street.
The real spectacle, of course, will actually take place Wednesday night, when a full sun will nestle itself between skyscrapers at 8:16 PM.
So ready your cameras, New York. A glance outside confirms sunny, clear skies for the first installment of the biennial phenomenon.
Neil Degrasse Tyson, director of the Hayden Planetarium and a longtime champion of the world's "greatest urban phenomenon" , has some good advice:
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Arizona reaps jobs, funds from decades-long boom in federal contracting
WASHINGTON – Federal contract spending in Arizona grew more than three times faster than the national rate over the past 20 years, according to a Cronkite News Service analysis of government data.
Between 1992 and 2012, the value of federal contracts in Arizona rose from $2.4 billion to $14.2 billion, a 491 percent increase. Total federal contract spending in the same period rose 158 percent, from $199.8 billion to $517 billion.
The growth in contracts outpaced overall growth of the state economy, with federal contracting rising from 3 percent of Arizona's economy in 1992 to more than 5.3 percent in 2012, according to Bureau of Economic Analysis data.
Federal contracting is "one of the most important drivers of the state's economy," said Dennis Hoffman, a professor of economics at Arizona State University's W.P. Carey School of Business.
"I just don't know how you can avoid the simple arithmetic," Hoffman said said of the numbers. "These are private-sector jobs" supported by federal spending.
Contract jobs are a "boon" to towns like Mesa, where a Boeing plant produces Apache helicopters and brings "very high-paying jobs," said Mayor Scott Smith.
Defense-related jobs like Boeing's have always played a large part in federal contracts in the state, accounting for 77 percent to 92 percent of total Arizona contracts over the 20 years.
Defense contracts in Arizona grew 578 percent, from $1.9 billion to $12.9 billion. Only Kentucky and Nevada saw larger percentage increases in defense spending over the 20 years. Only Kentucky saw a higher increase in all federal contracts, growing 622 percent.
Nationally, defense contract spending rose 167 percent since 1992.
"Support for defense spending is bipartisan," said Nick Schwellenbach, a senior fiscal policy analyst with the Center for Effective Government, a government watchdog group. "Nobody ever complains when government spends more on contracting."
And contractors spread work out among congressional districts so it's harder to cut, said Stephen Slivinski, a senior economist at the Goldwater Institute.
"Contractors have gotten very savvy," he said.
More than 150,000 Arizonans worked in defense contracting in 2012, fifth-highest among states, according to a report done for the Aerospace Industries Association of America last year.
"These jobs are one of the important drivers of the state's economy," Slivinski said.
Most of the growth is being driven by the expansion of high-tech manufacturing at defense firms such as Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, General Dynamics, BAE Systems and other companies in Arizona, said Hoffman.
Boeing and BAE Systems did not return calls seeking comment on the numbers, while Raytheon and Lockheed Martin declined comment.
Rep. Ed Pastor, D-Phoenix, who took office in 1992, has seen the growth first-hand. He said it was natural for Arizona firms to get defense contracts because they began with a solid base.
"If you take all the factors, you begin to see that because Arizona companies were providing services and equipment (for conflicts), it was natural for them to get increased contracts," Pastor said.
Pastor said Arizona companies in the 1990s were providing weapons for fighting in Bosnia and the Balkans, and have continued to do so for current wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Schwellenbach said the current wars have played a huge role.
"The spigot of defense spending opened, especially after 9/11," he said.
Demand is a key factor in how Arizona companies respond to the "tempo" of spending from the Pentagon, said Rob Doolittle, a spokesman for General Dynamics, which has facilities in Scottsdale and Tempe.
"When defense activity levels go up, purchases of General Dynamics-provided equipment and services that support those operations also increase," he said in an e-mailed statement.
Despite the past growth, many defense-oriented companies are diversifying into other areas, such as service-centered contracts, including healthcare and information technology. Schwellenbach said that trend has been going on for 15 years.
"A lot of the more traditional defense contractors have been buying smaller, non-traditional contractors," Schwellenbach said.
"The big contractors right now are not doing too badly," he said. "That doesn't mean they won't be hurt" by future reductions in spending.
Economists worry that the reliance on defense contracts might affect the state's ability to manage any downturns in Pentagon spending, especially after the recent drawdowns of troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"If you put all your eggs in one basket, your economy's going to be lopsided," Slivinski said. "I think we should be worried about the lopsided nature of the Arizona economy."
Hoffman agreed, saying that while Arizona is a "net beneficiary" of government spending, such spending is not sustainable over time.
"We don't know what the economy is going to look like in the future," Slivinski said. He said state lawmakers should work toward helping the state "diversify" the type of industries it attracts.
"If you have a diversified economy, you can weather" economic ebbs and flows in defense spending, he said.
Smith agreed that while defense contracts are "important to our economy, we're subject to changes in spending" if the Pentagon cuts back.
"What contractors want is certainty" in the contracting process, Smith said.
Still, even with budget battles in Washington, sequestration and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan winding down, some are skeptical that there will be big cuts in defense contracting.
"While I would not expect big growth in this sector, and even with smaller defense budgets, defense contracts will be protected from deep cuts," said Michael O'Hanlon, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
Even if there are cuts, the companies will be able to sustain themselves because they have learned to "evolve" as the DOD's needs change, Pastor said.
"It's still my belief that the companies that are in Arizona will continue to play an active role in the defense of this country," he said.
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Looks Like BMW of San Francisco Can't Af-FORD to Operate a BMW, in San FranciscoThursday, October 27th, 2016
Knock Knock, It's Housekeeping! – After You Sleep in Golden Gate Park Overnight, Rec & Park Will Come By to Clean UpFriday, September 4th, 2015
SFGov's Semi-Secret Abandoned Mattress Pickup Service, Seen Picking Up Bedding in Golden Gate ParkWednesday, March 4th, 2015
As seen on Lincoln out west in San Francisco County:
Somebody might have been using this mattress to sleep on in Golden Gate Park – I can't tell.
This might be the RPD parks and recreation people – I can't tell. (The Recology garbage monopoly people use hydraulics for a streetside summary execution of the box springs* they find.)
Another thing I can't tell is the difference betwixt San Francisco's legitimate mattress removal scheme vs. the process of simply wrestling your old bed** downstairs and throwing it down on the sidewalk in front of your door. I think you're supposed to tell them your address and put the letters RMJ (Remove My Junk) on your unwanted booty.
I'll look it up when and if the time comes…
*If you wanted to sell me** a box spring, I'd ask you what does it do and how am I going to eventually going to get rid of it. Oh, you say its job is to "support the mattress?" Uh, the same way the a hardwood floor might similarly "support" a mattress? And then people put a sheet of plywood in between the box spring and the mattress for "more support?" So I ask how does the mattress even know what's under the plywood? Box springs are a scam, man!
**This is an option, a foam bed, on sale, from the Costco.com – SPONSORED LINK, SURPRISE! No, no, just kidding, Gentle Reader. I wouldn't TBI you like that. Anyway, UPS delivers the box and you say, well, that's a small box, and then you cut it open and the thing expands and unfolds like a US Navy life raft. Now some people say that foam mattresses are too warm at night, you know, for Frisco. YMMV
The Death of Pedestrian Jack Wing, 78, at Market and Beale – December 10th, 2012Tuesday, December 11th, 2012
Jack Wing Identified as Pedestrian Killed in SOMA
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Come to San Francisco, Buy a Used Town Car, and Then Start Picking Up Passengers Like a Cabbie – Here's How to Do ItFriday, June 1st, 2012
So let's see here:
1. We regulate taxi rates so drivers won't exploit tourists and other disadvantaged souls. (Oh, you're a rich tourist and you're lost and your flight leaves in an hour? $200 to SFO, take it or leave it – that kind of thing.)
2. But we limit the number of cabs on the streets to help out the drivers.
3. So much so, that buying a used Lincoln Town car and illegally picking people up off of the streets after quoting exorbitant rates is a good way to score some quick cash.
4. And, the SFPD has other fish to fry and the SFMTA isn't really focused on this issue, so we're back to square one, with unregulated "taxi" drivers exploiting tourists and other disadvantaged souls. Oh well.
As here. These bidnessmen were trying to flag down some Yellow Cabs, but those were all full, so next come the Black Town Cars. The first one quotes a price through the door, as seen here:
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No dice. (What did the illegal cabbie ask for – $50 to go to Union Square? Something like that.)
And then another one pulls up and then another one, which ends up picking up these dudes and whisking them away. All the while, the bidnessmen were trying to flag down a real taxi.
Here's the aftermath, on Sacramento:
Note the City of Oakland taxi cruising up the street empty – that's agin the rules too, as Oakland taxis aren't allowed to pick up people in the 415.
Now you might not see this too much on a Tuesday night, but on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, it's Katie Bar The Door out there.
This is the situation.
However, the single-party state of San Francisco is incapable of addressing this particular situation.
Oh well.
San Francisco Needs Way More Taxi Cabs on the Street, Wednesday Through Saturday Evenings, AnywayFriday, August 5th, 2011
That's why we have so many illegal Town Cars drivers plying the streets, you know, they're filling the void.
As seen at 555 California, the Bank of America Building:
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Does any other city in America have a taxi situation like San Francisco's?
No, not at all.
We need more.*
Adding 500 part time medallions would be a good start…
*Adding just 35 or 85 or whatever, that's not going to cut it, pardner.
This Fake Sign Reminds Us All of a Real San Francisco Law.Monday, August 25th, 2008
This sign, sighted near in the Civic Center near Opera Plaza in San Francisco, cites an actual provision of the Health Code but it doesn't look like it was posted by the City or County. Seems like somebody has a personal campaign to get the word out. How civic minded!


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Think about how to add passivation support for injectable JMSContext.
We can also suppress the WELD warning which was introduced with latest WELD integration update.
[2013-04-13T15:26:48.628+0800] [glassfish 4.0] [WARNING] [] [org.jboss.weld.Bootstrap] [tid: _ThreadID=33 _ThreadName=admin-listener(1)] [timeMillis: 1365838008628] [levelValue: 900] [[ WELD-001473 javax.enterprise.inject.spi.Bean implementation org.glassfish.jms.injection.JMSCDIExtension$LocalBean@148bb71 declared a normal scope but does not implement javax.enterprise.inject.spi.PassivationCapable. It won't be possible to inject this bean into a bean with passivating scope (@SessionScoped, @ConversationScoped). This can be fixed by assigning the Bean implementation a unique id by implementing the PassivationCapable interface.]]
I created a test that used a stateful session bean which used an injected JMSContext with request scope and set a short <cache-idle-timeout-in-seconds> to force passivation.
This failed with
WARNING: Error during passivation: [StatefulSessionBeanBMT; id: 190c00500a81f-1327b0bf-1f]; [java.io.NotSerializableException: org.jboss.weld.context.ejb.EjbRequestContextImpl]
followed by
SEVERE: [beans.StatefulSessionBeanBMT]: Cannot load from BACKUPSTORE FOR Key: <[190c00500a81f-1327b0bf-1f]> WARNING: EJB5184:A system exception occurred during an invocation on EJB StatefulSessionBeanBMT, method: public void beans.StatefulSessionBeanBMT.sendMessageInUT(java.lang.String,java.lang.String,java.lang.String) throws java.lang.Exception WARNING: javax.ejb.NoSuchObjectLocalException: The EJB does not exist. session-key: 190c00500a81f-1327b0bf-1f at com.sun.ejb.containers.StatefulSessionContainer._getContext(StatefulSessionContainer.java:1625) at com.sun.ejb.containers.BaseContainer.getContext(BaseContainer.java:2516) at com.sun.ejb.containers.BaseContainer.preInvoke(BaseContainer.java:1906) at com.sun.ejb.containers.EJBLocalObjectInvocationHandler.invoke(EJBLocalObjectInvocationHandler.java:210) at com.sun.ejb.containers.EJBLocalObjectInvocationHandlerDelegate.invoke(EJBLocalObjectInvocationHandlerDelegate.java:88) at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy268.sendMessageInUT(Unknown Source) at beans.__EJB31_Generated__StatefulSessionBeanBMT__Intf____Bean__.sendMessageInUT(Unknown Source) at beans.MyMDB.onMessage(MyMDB.java:72)
the warning had me wondering if something was wrong with my code
I re-ran my test to see if this had been fixed in the released version of GlassFish 4.0, and I can confirm that I no longer see this error.
I tested with GlassFish Version: GlassFish Server Open Source Edition 4.0 (build 89)
My test case used a stateful session bean which had a business method which uses an injected JMSContext to send a message without a transaction. This means the injected JMSContext had request scope. I set <cache-idle-timeout-in-seconds> to 2 seconds.
I then called the same stateful session bean several times within the same request, with a pause of 20 seconds between each call (i.e. longer than the specified <cache-idle-timeout-in-seconds>) to encourage passivation to take place in between calls.
I used log statements to confirm that the bean was indeed passivated in between two such calls, and that after the bean was activated the injected JMSContext was proxied to the same underlying JMSContextImpl.
JMSContextImpl is not Serializable and this test confirms that it does not need to be. Even though a stateful session bean may be passivated in the middle of a request, this does not causes any problems if the bean uses an injected, request-scoped JMSContext. This is because although the field in question is serialized, this is just a proxy generated by Weld. The underlying JMSContextImpl is not serialized but continues to be managed by Weld. After the bean is activated, this proxy is deserialized just fine, and when it is next used Weld makes sure that it is fixed-up to point to the correct JMSContextImpl instance for the current request.
I think that this issue can be marked as resolved.
The 1st failure had been fixed with
GLASSFISH-20325; the 2nd with GLASSFISH-20318.
TransactedJMSContextManager doesn't need to be PassivationCapable, but LocalBean needs. So change TransactedJMSContextManager not implement PassivationCapable.


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Listen to Kix Brooks Radio on iHeartRadio
Kix Brooks might hum a few bars as he's tending bar next week. The country star will be on hand at Tin Roof 2 in Franklin, Tennessee, serving as a bartender in a fundraiser for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
Kix will l be joined by his "American Country Countdown" co-host Suzanne Alexander, who admits Kix knows a little more than she does about the beverages they'll be serving. She says she's "pretty sure" Kix, who owns a vineyard, "knows his way around a drink" while she "can pour a beer." But Suzanne adds that professional bartenders will also be on hand to make sure she and Kix "don't screw anything up."
Brooks and Alexander will be tending bar for St. Jude on September 30th.
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Red seems to be the colour of choice for our celebrities when opting for Indian wear and the past few weeks have seen a surge in this popularity. Sarees and suits in red have become go-tos for everyone from Aishwariya Rai to Shilpa Shetty. Attention grabbing and pleasing to the eye, red looks great against the Indian skin tone and adds a touch of festivity to the look.
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Sridevi, Konkana, and Shilpa(2nd pic)
Konkana then Sri then Shilpa...
Sridevi. Sridevi
Shilpa's dream has come true.
Konkana and Sridevi.
In these pics Sri Devi but Preity also looks great in red though you didn't mention her.
Aish and Jaya ji...they both look beautiful yet simple.
Sridevi love you
Sri Devi
❤ Aishwarya ❤
sri devi and poonam looks best
sridevi sridevi sridevi!
Sridevi and Jaya Bachchan
sri wins....she is the best...
konkana & shilpa in the 2nd pic. look nice & the rest, they look too much or too less.
konkana looks nice & shilpa in tne 2nd pic. the rest were too much.
iv always felt that indian women look most beautiful in red!
the first pic is so interesting... ash, shilpa, konkana look so much older than sridevi... ash and shilpa's faces look botoxed.. i'm sure sridevi uses botox (or other kinds of help) too, but it doesn't look so apparent, i wonder what her secret is?
sridevi wins
Konkona wins this. Classy, understated. The rest look like they're attending their own wedding.
Aishwarya Rai
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