September 9, 2005

Fascinating report from the Torygraph‘s Oliver Poole. Apparently the Iraqi government is trying to get rid of the rash of hired guns all over the country, or at least to set some limits to their activities. Iraq to bring private armies under controlBy Oliver Poole in Baghdad(Filed: 09/09/2005) Thousands of heavily armed private security contractors…

A few weeks ago, if you can cast your mind back that far, the big story was apparently something to do with a country called Iraq that was trying to agree among itself on its future constitution. After multiple deadlines were breached, two of the factions in the country decided to impose the constitution on…