Mercenary Gravy Train Continues In Iraq

The other security contractor is the British firm Global Strategies Group, which won a task order to provide both protective and static security for diplomats at the Consulate General in the southern city of Basra. That contract is worth up to $401 million over five years.Global is something of a jack of all trades in the defense contracting world. In Afghanistan, it guards the Kabul airport and worked to screen the movement of cash through it, an anti-corruption measure that appears to have earned it the ire of President Hamid Karzai. But it’s also held contracts spanning from engineering ($358 million, with the Naval Research Laboratory) to providing vehicle transponders ($285,000, with the Army ) to lots of security-guard duties for the U.S. Army in Afghanistan. In full HERE