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Salah Hasan Nusaif Jasim Al-Ejaili was detained for about four months. He was stripped, kept naked, threatened with dogs, deprived of food, beaten, and kept him isolated under sensory deprivation conditions.
Previous articles discussed private military contractors (PMCs). They're used tactically as combatants, for training, advice, personal security, technical expertise, intelligence gathering, weapons systems management, transportation, and other non-combatant services.
Those performing security functions are hired gun paramilitaries. They're unprincipled for a buck. Most often, they're unaccountable under international and domestic laws. They're licensed to torture, abuse, and kill with impunity. Exceptions prove the rule.
Abuses are widespread. Prosecutions rarely follow. Instead of restoring order, maintaining peace and security, upholding rule of law principles, facilitating reconstruction and development, providing essential needs, they terrorize populations with impunity.
They operate in dozens of countries. Nearly always, torture, abuse of all kinds, rape, human trafficking, and other crimes go unpunished.
Companies like Blackwater (now Academi), DynCorp, CACI, L-3 Services, and others don't show up with olive branches. They come to rape, torture, abuse and kill with impunity and be well-paid for it.
Since the 1990s, hundreds of billions of dollars have been spent outsourcing services military personnel used to perform at far lower cost.
Spending is out-of-control. Waste, fraud, and anything goes malfeasance is commonplace. Profiteering results in vast amounts of money thrown away. Black budgets conceal how much. Minimally, it's in the tens of billions of dollars annually.
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