Attacks rise on supply convoys

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Source: USA today





Attacks rise on supply convoys
Civilian guards provide security

By Jim Michaels
USA TODAY

BAGHDAD — Attacks on supply convoys protected by private security companies in Iraq have more than tripled as the U.S. government depends more on armed civilian guards to secure reconstruction and other missions.

There were 869 such attacks from the beginning of June 2006 to the end of May this year. For the preceding 12 months, there were 281 attacks.

Deaths and injuries increased to 206 from 157 during that same time, according to the Army Corps of Engineers' Logistics Movement Control Center. Most of those convoys carry U.S.-funded reconstruction supplies for the Iraqi government.
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"We will never go to war in the future without civilian assistance," because the active military lacks the people for the job, said Jack Holly, logistics director for the Army Corps of Engineers' Gulf Region Division.

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[Spinzonner]

1. The New Hessians

[Barrett808]

2. k & r

[gratuitous]

3. If we don't have the troops, maybe we shouldn't go to war?

I remember Jesus saying something about that.

Anyway, instead of cutting defense spending on "the troops," how about Congress cuts all spending on non-troop related personnel?