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May 10, 2005
Are Contractors Terrorist Targets?
The Pentagon says no. That must be reassuring to those working in a country teeming with insurgents bent on bombing whatever travels on major roads in Iraq:
``While some attacks are intended to kill or capture contractors specifically in an effort to weaken U.S. resolve and boost insurgent campaigns, there is little evidence to support a systematic plan to attack U.S. contractors,'' said a 25-page report compiled by the U.S. Army's Project and Contracting Office, Tony Capaccio with Bloomberg reports.
I bumped into a fascinating counterpoint by Global Guerillas blogster John Robb and brilliant in its intellectual leaps...certainly worth a gander:
"The market for outsourced services provided by western and associated companies are critical to the reconstruction of Iraq, the logistics of the US military, and the operation of critical infrastructure in Saudi Arabia. It's our 'soft underbelly.' Because these services form a market network, global guerrillas can use the dynamics of the marketplace to amplify the impact of their attacks."
Posted by davidphinney at May 10, 2005 05:26 PM