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You'll deviated off the topic of this thread. I say lock it up and let us start a new thread.

Last weekend, I met like 1/2 dozen of those contractors. What I am hearing, they act like body-guards here in US. To escort and protect personnel and like armed guard to protect assets (i.e. locations). They are not a militia or small private army. Blackwater incident was the most well known attack on civilian by those contracts, but not all contracts are the same. Finally, since they are lightly armed, they still need evacuation ASAP if they are mass attacked.

AndyC wrote:

Cedar Park Dad wrote:Are these mercenaries? If so I could care less.

Define "mercenary", because I didn't meet any over there.

Hired private ex-soldiers, now AKA security contractors.

AndyC wrote:

baldeagle wrote:If I was a contractor over there, they would only be cutting off my head after I was dead. There is no way I'd allow myself to be captured alive. Anybody who does is an idiot.

That's what the last round in our pistols were for

A buddy of mine is there - if he goes down, he's going down singing his death song in a pile of brass

The news wire reports that there are 200 security contractors in Al-balad base. All are now trapped or under siege. Very bad situation. I could not believe how the Iraqi armed forces collapse so fast. Now ISIS have looted $500,000,000 and some 400,000 firearms plus hundreds of light and heavy armored units.

mamabearCali wrote:Sigh....perhaps a mostly secular despot was not such a horrible thing. We can't win.

I was against Iraq war from the start. I was 100% sure Iraq war did not serve the interest of US, nor the war was winnable. One had just to ask the British how was it in Iraq after WW2.
Now, the Iraq/Syria war is destabilizing the whole ME.
The whole Obama/Hillary Foreign policy is total failure. If for Bengazhi incident, Hillary said who cares if it was for the video or pre-planned attack. Now, what about Iraq, Syria and ISIS?!!
no-action in Syria by Obama administration led to ISIS getting stronger and nobody cared until it is too late.

And the real trouble in Middle east starts now. It is really a sad epoch in life of civilians in Syria and Iraq, and in couple years, in Afghanistan.