En livvakt i Bagdad (och några andra platser)

Fast som någon nämnde får man chansen så vettifan om man hade åkt ner och jobbat någon måndag och tjänat massa pengar, åker ju inte ner för 20,000 i månaden får nog bli över 100,000:- i så fall.

Men många livvakter dör där nere? finns det någon statistik? För det lär ju vara 50/50 att man kommer hem igen...

For most of the time since the US invasion in 2003 nobody knew for certain how many PMCs operated in Iraq. Last year in response to a request from Congress, a CPA-compiled report listed 60 PMCs with an aggregate total of 20,000 personnel (including US citizens, third-country nationals and Iraqis).

But that list was incomplete. Missing, for example, are companies implicated in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal such as Titan CAC and SOS Interpreting Ltd. News reports peg the number of interrogators from private contractors there between 30 and 40. Most of the armed personnel were the more than 14,000 Iraqi guards who worked the oil field security contract for the British firm Erinys. The Iraqi government has since resumed that task.

The total number of (non-Iraqi) PMC gun-toting personnel is certainly fewer then 20,000; perhaps as few as 6,000 security contractors. And despite claims to the contrary, PMCs do not constitute the second- or third-largest army in Iraq; they are not coordinated into one cohesive whole, nor do they engage in offensive operations. [...]

According to a report last month by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) there was a workforce of about 38,000 employees (including foreign nationals and subcontractor personnel) working on the Logistics Civil Augmentation Program (LOGCAP) in Iraq from March 2003 to November 2004. But at least 524 US military contract workers, many of them Iraqis, have been killed in Iraq since the March 2003 invasion, according to an October 27 Bloomberg news report.

At least 25 Blackwater workers have been killed in Iraq. San Diego, California-based Titan Corp, which provides military translators, has lost 148, the most among the 43 companies that have filed death-benefit claims with the Labor Department.

At least another 3,963 were injured, according to Department of Labor insurance-claims statistics obtained by Knight Ridder news service. If one assumes the base is the CBO number, that works out to 10% of the total. Those statistics, which experts said were the most comprehensive listing available on the toll of the war, are far from complete. Two of the biggest contractors in Iraq, Halliburton and its Kellogg Brown and Root subsidiary, said their casualties were higher than the figures the Labor Department had for them.

The government's listing shows the contractors' casualty rate is increasing. In the first 21 months of the war, 11 contractors were killed and 74 injured each month on average. This year, the monthly average death toll is nearly 20 and the average monthly number of injured is 243.

Vill ju till att man är ett sammansvetsat gäng som verkligen vet hur man ska agera i en skarp situation.

Men det är ju mycket man inte kan göra något åt... så jag antar att det är mycket tur det hänger på också, vill en seriös grupp "fiender" ta livet av din klient, så gör dom nog det.