Aussie E
06-06-2004, 04:51 PM
Anybody else catch the PMC show on NPR Radio? It was on firday 7pm, saturday 3pm and again tonight sunday 7pm Pasific Standard Time. Pretty good show, first half about the "shooters" of Custer Battles. It started with a heated confrontation between 2 US Army officers and a security person. Didn't relise that there was bad blood betwwen some of the army and the PMC's. Went on to interview the head of Custer Battles PSD group and I quess they had a bad rep as a little trigger happy, they got into a ff with some insg. at there last hotel they stayed at and ended up shooting around 3000 rounds at shadows, the new guy in charge was brought in to clean up, now they are more professional. The second half was support personel, airport screeners, construction workers, police trainers etc. The interviewer was traveling with some power plant workers when their convoy came under fire, all made it out allright. If you get a chance check it out. In Las Vegas 88.9 FM at 7pm. The rest of you, who knows?
Looks like it will be online in about a week.
http://www.thislife.org/
I'm From the Private Sector and I'm Here to Help
6/4/04
Episode 266
Coming soon.
I'm From the Private Sector
and I'm Here to Help.
Civilian contractors make up a huge part of the American occupation of Iraq. They were interrogating prisoners at Abu Ghraib. Twenty thousand of them are private guns-for-hire doing security work. And they've been getting killed. This American Life Contributing Editor Nancy Updike recently spent three weeks with several contractors, talking to them about what they do, how they view the situation on the ground, and why in the world they volunteered for jobs in the middle of a war zone. We devote the whole hour this week to her special report about what's it like to be a private citizen on the payroll of an occupying army. Broadcast the weekend of June 4-6 in most places, or available here via RealAudio next week.
http://www.thislife.org/images/shows/266/iraq-airport.jpg
Pictured: Doing business in Baghdad at least has one upside: no long lines at the airport.
Looks like it will be online in about a week.
http://www.thislife.org/
I'm From the Private Sector and I'm Here to Help
6/4/04
Episode 266
Coming soon.
I'm From the Private Sector
and I'm Here to Help.
Civilian contractors make up a huge part of the American occupation of Iraq. They were interrogating prisoners at Abu Ghraib. Twenty thousand of them are private guns-for-hire doing security work. And they've been getting killed. This American Life Contributing Editor Nancy Updike recently spent three weeks with several contractors, talking to them about what they do, how they view the situation on the ground, and why in the world they volunteered for jobs in the middle of a war zone. We devote the whole hour this week to her special report about what's it like to be a private citizen on the payroll of an occupying army. Broadcast the weekend of June 4-6 in most places, or available here via RealAudio next week.
http://www.thislife.org/images/shows/266/iraq-airport.jpg
Pictured: Doing business in Baghdad at least has one upside: no long lines at the airport.