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riverwalker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-05-04 11:56 PM
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Civilian contract torturers paid $100,000/year
On Nightline tonight. The civilian interrogators who worked for the prison for CACI and Titan were paid $100,000 year, minimum. Are all still employed, some still in Iraq, recieved no punishment at all.
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Rick Myers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-06-04 12:00 AM
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1. That sound you hear is...
Benito Musolini rising from the grave to FILM an endorsement ad for Duyba and The Dickster's 'campaign!!!'

I'm il Duce, and I approved this massage!!!

:toast:
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cliss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-06-04 12:04 AM
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2. This is probably the reason
the costs of this war are spinning out of control. They're spending the money faster than the Fed can print the money.

In another year, the treasury will be wiped out.
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SEpatriot Donating Member (369 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-06-04 12:20 AM
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3. Shadow operatives and the private sector
a very bad combination. The shadows were running the show in the prisons - they will not be touched. A few soldiers will get burned as a sacrifice. And Negroponte is going to Iraq. Need I say more???

http://www.indybay.org/news/2004/04/1677860.php

http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/04/04/con04178.html
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-06-04 12:30 AM
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4. Shadow operatives and the private sector and Apartheid
The British/South African company Erinys has the $100 million-plus annual contract to provide security at Iraq’s oil facilities and pipelines. Erinys employs some 14,000 Iraqi security guards on wages of $150 per month, supervised by dozens of former British and apartheid-era South African military.

Four South African Erinys employees were killed during in a guerilla attack in January. It was revealed one of them was Francois Strydom, a white South African who had fought with a pro-apartheid paramilitary in Namibia. Another Erinys contractor who was wounded in the attack, Deon Gouws, had been a member of the South African secret police Vlakplaas and was charged by the South African Truth Commission for murdering an anti-apartheid activist in 1986. A former South African judge Richard Goldstein told the press he knew of 150 former apartheid-era security operatives working as mercenaries in Iraq.

lots more
http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_7202.shtml
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Mattforclark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-06-04 12:30 AM
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5. But the private sector is "more efficient"
I thought the propaganda said that? How does that work?
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maggrwaggr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-06-04 12:36 AM
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6. I heard civilian "interrogators" were getting over 400K
I'm trying to remember where I heard that. Aaron Brown?
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TacticalPeek Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-06-04 12:39 AM
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7. And that is 100% tax-free.
Up to about $135K, IIRC.

"Interrogators" would max out, I imagine.

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