US contractors Iraq

[sf11b_p]

Interesting thing .

Iraq detains US contractors

What is the end result of a nearly-nine year war between Iraq and America? Over 100,000 violent deaths, the execution of Saddam Hussein and now the detainment of an undisclosed number of US contractors.”

http://rt.com/usa/news/iraq-us-contractors-detainment-929/

“The Iraqi public is not happy with security contractors. They caused a lot of pain,” Rahis tells the Times. “There is a general bad feeling towards the security contractors among the Iraqis and that has created bad feelings towards them all.”


Speaking on condition of anonymity, one US military official tells the Times that the detainment is “primarily an adjustment of our standard operating procedures as we adapt our people and they adapt their security forces to the new situation.”

Reads like the "new situation” is contractors pucker factor should be pegging the meter.

Also...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/iraq-detains-foreign-contractors/2012/01/16/gIQAXhSO3P_story.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/16/world/middleeast/asserting-its-sovereignty-iraq-detains-american-contractors.html?pagewanted=all

[Team Sergeant]

The contractor issue has been discussed on here and leaving before the main forces was mentioned as a very prudent idea. Especially after what Blackwater, now XE did to 17 unarmed Iraqi civilians.
Iraq is very unstable as is quite a few M.E. countries. I would not be surprised to see the next headlines concerning "contractors" working in Iraq leaving in a mass exodus.