OUTSOURCING OF ARMED CONTRACTORS HIGHEST EVER IN AFGHAN WAR

The number of security contractor working in Afghanistan has tripled since 2009 and is now at its highest level since the U.S. began its military participation there after 9/11, according to a new report by the Congressional investigate Service.

"In Afghanistan, as of December 2010, there were 18,919 private security contractor employees working for [the Department of Defense], the maximum number since DOD started tracking the data in September 2007," the report says. U.S. troop numbers are expected to lessen starting this summer, but there is no such stated goal for private security contractors, which ever more take on armed roles once reserved for uniformed human resources.

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