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□イラクで深まるアメリカ軍と傭兵たちとの対立
・ここで言う『対立』とは政治的な意味合いだけではなく，より直接的な相手への故意の発砲や
武力的な衝突も意味している。
具体的な例としてこの記事では，2004年11月にアメリカ軍の基地となっているサダム国際空港で
頻発したアメリカ兵とCuster Battlesというイギリスの傭兵会社に所属する傭兵たちとの
衝突を挙げている。
記事は，こういったアメリカ軍と傭兵たちとの対立の原因について，
給料の格差(特に州兵と予備役の兵士たちの間に不満が多い)，
傭兵たちの規律のなさと非常識ぶり(主に粗暴で差別的な態度)，
傭兵たちによる犯罪行為，
さらに傭兵たちの側からは，自分たちを使い捨てにするアメリカ軍への不信感，
などを挙げている。
湾岸戦争時の傭兵の割合はアメリカ兵60名につき1名の割合だったが，
現在，イラクにおける傭兵の割合は，アメリカ兵10名につき1名という割合に
なっている。
この記事によると，最大で3万5000名の傭兵がイラクにいる可能性があるという。
傭兵たちはアメリカやイギリス，オーストラリアや南アフリカの特殊部隊，
さらにはコロンビアやエルサルバドルの暗殺部隊の出身者だという。
http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/53669
Hostile Incidents Increasing Between US Military And Private Military Contractor In Iraq
By: Chris Sedlmair on: 16.06.2005 [04:35 ] (962 reads)
Baghdad, IRAQ ﾐ JUNE 13, 2005 ﾐ Reports about armed confrontations between active duty U.S. and coalition military forces and coalition armed private military contractors in Iraq have gone from a trickle to a steady flow. While fragging incidents between U.S. enlisted and officers were more commonplace in Vietnam than ever admitted by the Pentagon, the violence between active military and quasi-mercenaries in Iraq is a fairly new phenomenon, according to U.S. military experts. What is occurring in Iraq is not friendly fire but willful fighting between occupation forces. In late May fighting broke out betwee in Fallujah between armed contractors working for Zapata Engineering, a North Carolina firm, and U.S. Marines. The Zapata employees reportedly fired on Marine security positions. The Los Angeles Times reported that the Marines witnessed the Zapata employees firing on civilians and in a letter to 16 Zapata employees banning them from Iraq the Marine Corps stated, “Your convoy was speeding through Fallujah and firing shots indiscriminately, some of which impacted positions manned by U.S. Marines. Your actions endangered the lives of innocent Iraqis and U.S. service members in the area.”
In addition, last year there were a number of incidents between US Army personnel (including officers) and armed employees of the Rhode Island-based and GOP-connected firm Custer Battles. The firm, which was accused of over billing the government, was later suspended from doing work in Iraq, although it has recently resurfaced under different corporate identities and off shore corporate shells. A number of Custer Battles’s Iraq employees are non-vetted veterans of U.S. and foreign (British SAS, South African and Australian Special Forces, and Colombian and Salvadorean death squad veterans, e.g.) paramilitary and special operations campaigns. Many lack the cultural awareness training and obligations required of active duty US forces in Iraq. Many private military contractors have committed atrocities against Iraqi civilians that are often blamed on the US military. The involvement of two contractors, CACI and Titan, in the Abu Ghraib torture scandal, has added to the enmity between the military and contractors.
This military-contractor schism has resulted in overall bad blood between the military and the privateers throughout Iraq and has resulted in armed confrontations between active duty military and Custer Battles personnel, especially in and around Baghdad International Airport, where Custer Battles has been involved in security operations. Last November, there were a number of shooting incidents and other physical altercations between US Army troops and Custer Battles personnel at Baghdad airport. Some contractors have sought to downplay and obfuscate the fratricidal combat. They have insinuated in security alerts that Iraqi insurgents have masqueraded as contractor personnel in attacking Iraqi civilians and US military personnel. The US military scoff at this notion.
There are also reports that US military intelligence personnel look the other way when they receive word of an Iraqi insurgent (secular ex-Republican Guard, not Zarqawi or affiliated) attack on private military contractors. A recent For Official Use Only (“FOUO”) US Army PowerPoint briefing provided to this reporter states that the Iraqi insurgency is split into three independent groups ﾐ the “Islamic Ultra-Conservative;” the Sunni, former regime, anti-Sh’ia, anti-Kurd supported by the Baathists in Syria and “anti-West sympathizers; and the Sh’ia who “seek government control, used to taking position as underdog” and “draws support from sympathizers in Iran.”
Many US military personnel, especially National Guardsmen and Reservists, are jealous of the large salaries paid to the private contractors. For every ten US military personnel in Iraq, there is now one private military support contractor. In Operation Desert Storm, the ratio was one in 60. There may be as many as 35,000 private military contractors now in Iraq.
The conflicts between the US military and contractors stem from disparity in pay and benefits between the military and contractors; the contractors’ lack of discipline and cultural awareness (“cowboy” and racist attitudes); illegal activities by the contractors; and a belief by contractors that the US military is not doing enough to protect them.
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