Pentagon contractors multiply eight times more than last year in Iraq

[ltr]Pentagon contractors multiply eight times more than last year in Iraq[/ltr]

 Since 02/25/2016 21:15 (Baghdad time)
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[ltr]Data released by the US Defense Department confirmed that, after giving President Barack Obama to accelerate the campaign against terror Daash gangs saw the number of contractors and contractors Americans from the private sector, a major breakthrough was eight times the number from last year, a rate that far exceeds the increased number of US troops who are training and advise Iraqi forces.[/ltr]
[ltr]The United States withdrew its military forces from Iraq in 2011, but a lot of contractors stayed behind to work in the US embassy in the sprawling Baghdad or logistical roles.[/ltr]
[ltr]Government documents show that the number of contractors private contractors in this season hired by the Pentagon in Iraq has increased eight-fold from last year.[/ltr]
[ltr]There are currently more than 2000 contractors who work for the US Department of Defense in Iraq.[/ltr]
[ltr]It comes with an order from the US Defense Department to double the number of US troops in Iraq, to ​​as many as 3,700 troops.[/ltr]
[ltr]The report, published by the American site Devines Wen military affairs specialist report that "the sharp increase in the number of contractors Americans and exposed by congressional report confirms the growing US military's reliance on civilians, even in the small tasks that require the presence of relatively few troops."[/ltr]
[ltr]Retired Gen. US and the world, said in a Rand Corp. "If you look at the size and composition of the forces that have been deployed in the solution process inherent in Iraq are seeing a change significantly in the number of contractors for the past year."[/ltr]
[ltr]He added that "as of early January this year, the number of contractors in 2028 people in Iraq after the number was only 250 people last year, according to data from the US Department of Defense."[/ltr]
[ltr]The report continued that "the number of contractors represent a small part of contractors hired by the United States in Iraq, in addition to defense contractors, who numbered 5,800 in 2028 while other works by other agencies, including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs."[/ltr]
[ltr]Brennan said that "we have in Iraq now accounted for 30 percent and numbering 618 people from the contractors working on the maintenance functions, logistics, there are nearly 20 percent numbering 381 people, translators and 13 percent, numbering 263 people working steadily in the rules and that the 70 percent of them American citizens and 20 percent from other countries and the rest Iraqis, according to the defense. "[/ltr]
[ltr]He stressed that "many of the contractors in Iraq and neighboring countries are known, such as KBR security companies and company DynCorp and Fluor Corporation."[/ltr]
[ltr]The report noted that not all contractors working in US bases in Iraq and Afghanistan Agency of the CIA and other intelligence agencies are still using contractors from Blackwater and DynCorp and others working in the field of military service and the number of them and some of them closer to the battlefield than the Americans military advisers remained unknown until now the public domain.[/ltr]
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