Reply #19: are they armed? [View All]

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In Iraq, Singer said, there are more than 15,000 such workers, though not all carry guns. Some work in military mess halls or maintain computerized weapon systems.

Thousands are security staff, issued Coalition Provisional Authority permits to carry weapons such as assault rifles.

http://www.newsobserver.com/iraq/iraq_2004/story/3471043p-3084088c.html



UK security guard killed in Iraq

"The other car, which had the power experts in and may also have been armoured, managed to get away unscathed."

Olive, which has had up to 300 staff working in Iraq at times, won a contract to supply security to guard civilian contractors working for Bechtel, one of the main US companies rebuilding the country. Mr Legge-Bourke, a former aide-de-camp to chief of defence staff Sir Charles Guthrie, is the company’s overall security manager and is understood to be based in the UK. He was unavailable for comment last night.

Olive’s services include armed VIP protection and convoy escort, threat and risk analysis and assistance with debugging and security sweeps. It operates in trouble spots across the Middle East and Africa.
For businessmen willing to visit Iraq, the security costs have escalated in recent months. Most security firms looking after them now insist that they travel at all times in a $750 (£413)-a-day armoured car, with a non-armoured vehicle escorting them as back-up.

A security guard armed with machine gun and side arm normally travels in each one.

http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=359432004





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