Dyncorp seeks to overturn Iraq contract

[ze_dscherman]

Dyncorp, the Texas-based private military contractor, is seeking to overturn the largest private security deal in Iraq, claiming that the contract was improperly awarded.

The US army surprised many in the industry last month when it awarded a $293m (€237m, £158m) contract to co-ordinate private security companies in Iraq to Aegis Defence Services - a small UK start-up with no experience in Iraq. More controversially, the company is run by Tim Spicer, a former British army officer who was at the centre of a political scandal in the UK during the late 1990s.

Dyncorp, which lost out on the contract, has a long and close relationship with the US government, performing a range of tasks including guarding military compounds and training the Iraqi police.

Dyncorp has submitted a formal protest to the audit arm of the US Congress, the Government Accountability Office, which will rule on the dispute by September 30.

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[jpgray]

1. Dyncorp also used children in the Balkans as sex slaves

But nary a report in the US media over this ripe and juicy 'sex scandal'. Look how weird and depraved Michael Jackson is--quick! :crazy:

[Robbien]

2. Tim Spicer is far from being an angel

In addition to his UK Dogs of War scandal, there was also some mention of him in the mercenary coup of Equatorial Guinea. The guy who ran the mercenaries is/was a partner of Spicer's old firm.

No honor among thieves.

[jpgray]

3. I certainly didn't mean to imply that Aegis was somehow pure by comparison

These mercenaries all disgust me.

[Robbien]

4. Yes, both firms are worse than evil

But as you said, Dyncorp's image is untarnished because there is a media blackout on Dyncorp's evil deeds.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

5. Dyncorp is probably thinking:

"When we bought these politicians, they were supposed to stay bought! What happened?"

[saigon68]

6. No honor among thieves

disgusting

[TacticalPeek]

7. Let 'em fight it out. They could use the NTC.

I hear Ft. Irwin is about to be empty. Survival of the fittest. $300 million 'flag' to the winners.

We don't have the money for training, or soldiers for that matter. Sorry, Shrub broke the Army. And the bank. (Hide the Navy!)

[bobthedrummer]

8. Private Military Companies/PMC's or mercenaries, whatever you call

them, are full of criminal scum including slavers, child rapists, torturers, psychotic sadists and the rainbow coalition of racists.

The administration of George W. Bush aka The War President employs mercenaries and calls them "contractors". Most of these mercenaries are big campaign donors.

Campaign Contributions of Post-War Contractors
http://www.publicintegrity.org/wow/resources.aspx?act=contrib

:grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::argh:

[LizW]

9. Pigs biting each other to get at the teat

Sorry for the gross analogy, but I'm a farm girl.

[Barrett808]

10. The revenge of Pug Winokur, late of the Enron board n/t