No more Blackwater in Iraq.....

[03humpalot]

Well i have experience with it,
it will be a goat**** of that i have no doubt. Both of you guys (Iraqgunz and trunkmonkey) have valid points. We will see what happens.

Something i havent seen brought up yet is Afghanistan...Karzai stated after the Nissour Square shoot that if BW was not welcome in Iraq they wouldnt be welcome in Afghanistan either. Anyone heard anything further on that angle?

Interesting times these.

[trunkmonkey]

You can bet the state dept will look to distance themselves from BW when the renewal of the contract comes up. That is of course if BW isn't booted out same as Iraq first.

[Iraqgunz]

Whatever you say, Chief.

Yep, they sure don't have to do an easy changeover.

Because it totally makes sense to put a 1000 guys in those positions that may or may not have
experience running those routes.

But hey that's my prediction. And your current location has literally nothing to do with it.

[furyfighter20]

Everyone is forgetting one important detail. the us government is switching more and more power to the Iraq gov. and giving the IA the lead on most ops and the us army is there for support rolls. now don’t get me wrong we still take care of the important roles because the IA is not up to par yet but they r getting better but I won’t put my life on it. Now to my point with the new security agreement the IRAQ gov. has the ability to prosecute civilian’s contractors for crimes here in Iraq. I will try to find the link I read and post it.

[JSantoro]

The IAs can get as good as they're possibly capable of getting, and they'll still suck, because nobody in the Mid-East, except Israel, has a professional military tradition. At least not in the way we westerners think of it.

I hope you're not bringing them up under the idea of them providing security for our diplomatic mission, because that's a patently ridiculous concept (because of that whole "sucking" thing I mentioned...). No matter how much of a lead they may or may not be taking in other matters, there's no way in hell we'll let them be the lead agency in providing the immediate physical security of our people. Not only no, but HELL no, and them sucking is only the most obvious reason. It would be politically stupid, too.

If that's not your angle, I don't see where you're going by mentioning the IAs. They're not a factor in this regard.

[Littlelebowski]

But hey that's my prediction. And your current location has literally nothing to do with it.

Because his current location has nothing to do with him being in that profession, in that AO for literally years, right?

You're a bright one.

[Iraqgunz]

Well it looks as if contrary to others predictions that Triple Canopy has been awarded the contract to replace Blackwater on the WPPS contract in Iraq. A source of mine had told me this a short while back, but I kept it close and still kept hearing rumors that Dyncorp was the winner. I guess we'll see. I am also surprised about the decision to force BW's air wing out as well.

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS...iraq.security/

[VooDoo6Actual]