95% of Private Contractors employed in Afghanistan are Afghans

[FrenchieCat]

The Pentagon's surveys reveal that the makeup of armed private security contractors varies considerably between the two war zones. In Iraq, less than 5 percent of the armed civilians are Americans, while less than 8 percent are Iraqi. The remaining 88 percent come from other countries, such as Fiji, Nepal, Chile and Nigeria.

In Afghanistan, the overwhelming majority — some 95 percent — are Afghans.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113389274


Guess giving Afghans jobs in their country which is without an economy is a bad thing??? :shrug:


Private Contractors and Armed Mercenaries are not always the same thing.....

Armed security contractors make up only a small portion of the overall Pentagon contractor workforce. The Defense Department employed a total of 193,674 private contractors in both Iraq and Afghanistan as of June (compared to a total U.S. military deployment of 189,678 soldiers), according to a separate Congressional Research Service report.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113389274


Also,
During his recent inaugural address, Afghanistan's embattled president Hamid Karzai dropped a major bombshell. "Within the next two years," he declared, his administration intends to phase out "operations by all private national and international security firms" and transfer their duties to "Afghan security entities."
http://motherjones.com/politics/2009/11/karzai-contractor-ban-obama-afghanistan