The use of contractors in the US ‘war on terror’ inspired Russia and other powers to outsource war. For the US, Russia, and other powers, military contractors are serving as convenient means for proxy warfare which offer plausible deniability and mitigate potential domestic tensions over foreign wars. Plausible deniability The Kremlin likely watched closely the US government’s use of contractors …
With less than a month left in his presidency, President Trump on Tuesday pardoned four Blackwater security contractors whose convictions for killing 14 unarmed Iraqi civilians in 2007 had in recent years become a right-wing rallying cry. "The investigation was monumental," Paul Dickinson, a plaintiff's attorney in North Carolina who represented six of the Iraqi victims in a lawsuit in …
Editor’s Note: Thomas O’Connor served for 23 years as an FBI special agent before retiring in 2019. However, none of those fact patterns are present in President Donald Trump’s pardon of four Blackwater security guards serving time for their involvement in the killing of 17 Iraqis in Baghdad on September 16, 2007. At a place called “Man Camp,” Blackwater Team …
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Tuesday pardoned four former government contractors convicted in a 2007 massacre in Baghdad that left more than a dozen Iraqi civilians dead and caused an international uproar over the use of private security guards in a war zone. “Paul Slough and his colleagues didn’t deserve to spend one minute in prison,” said Brian Heberlig, …
