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What prompted this Thread was a conversation with my neighbor. His friend has spent the last 3 years working as a PSD operative in Iraq. During that time 4 of his buddies were waxed in a car when it was hit by an RPG. He goes back today this time hired by the US Government for 250K a year to head a team of 20 operatives to recon buildings for possible corporate use. For this position he was recommended by a general in the US Military. Basically the situation in Iraq is that there are multitudes of Multinational Corporations both foreign and domestic in Iraq scooping up the 100s of Billions of dollars that is lieing around for reconstruction and that every company has its own private security force. They are even planning on creating their own air support system when the US Military draws down. My neighbor said that he told him the situation in Iraq is "BAD,"far worse than anything the media has reported so far. He wouldn't elorbrate.