a special report iraq. tucked in between the russian mainland japan and the suckling island is the island of minute on named after french seafarer who discovered it it is described as the pride of the sakhalin region we'll take a look at what's in store for us here. until two thousand and four the island was part of the borders own and was completely restricted to visit this no this picturesque place is open to tourists unique plants and animals are its top attraction. treaty has been exploring the deaths of the world sees for several decades but it's here at more your own island where he has finally found what he'd been looking for

. the water here is very clear the visibility is very good and the underwater world here is extremely rich i've been to many diving locations across the planet including the island of bali but mine are on top of my list while some go to the cycling region to enjoy the sights others convert the islands nature's riches into a healthy dollar it is home to the biggest seafood processing factory in russia the tonight shop hundreds of thousands of tons of fish get caught in the nets too late to produce delicious salamon caviar almost and necessary attribute of any feast in russia the owner of the enterprise says a good fishing season can bring in more than a hundred million dollars net profit. and to a large extent this is owed to what succulent offers environmentally the tonight show operates in only and natural habitat and mild climate unique natural sights and delicious seafood succulent can offer

a diverse holiday for those who are not afraid to travel ten thousand kilometers from europe the question is whether this distant land would ever be able to become a major tourist destination. you know. only. in recent years as we have been actively engaging and war things the government used to do is now being done by private companies food laundry now and similar services provided within the military now in iraq you still need lot of support mechanisms and there's just not enough military infrastructure to do that

private contractors come in and they fill the gap. but i saw the contractors doing anywhere from helping fix tanks and helicopter mechanics pretty much any job that's in the military there's a civilian contractor right there there are over one hundred thousand private contractors working in iraq kuwait and the surrounding area. this war has been privatized to a greater extent than any other war in history they're part of a multi-billion dollar industry fueled by your tax dollars an industry very much in me by the u.s. military. forty cents out of every dollar congress controls goes to contractors. there's more than twenty thousand private military on the ground so the second

largest armed force in iraq or private security the out scale the brits are a real solution. my question is regarding is in regards to private military contractors the uniform code of military justice does not apply to these contractors in iraq i asked your secretary of defense a couple months ago what law governs their actions is wrong and i ask him go ahead . i was hoping your answer might be a little more specific. mr rumsfeld answered that iraq has its own domestic laws which he assumed applied to those private military contractors however iraq is clearly not currently capable of enforcing its laws much less against you know over our american military contractors i would

submit to you that in this case this is one case that privatization is not a solution and mr president how do you propose to bring private military contractors under a system of law i appreciate that very much i wasn't kidding. i found out. april of two thousand and three by a phone call to say well the goodness is congratulations you've been selected for promotion to brigadier general i said well that's good news what could possibly be the bad news and he said well the bad news is your unit you'll be commanding assisting the prisons experts with the restoration of prisons for all of iraq. and they're already deployed and i said well can i go. and there is just that second of silence on the other end of the telephone and he said you want to go i was reading the bible in greek and hebrew and studying those languages and hebrew sort of flip

naturally into arabic i was also interested in student loan repayment. you know upwards of forty thousand dollars in student loans which the army promised to repay the option available to me was to get a secret clearance to become an interrogator and i agreed to this was pretty nine eleven i didn't really expect i'd have to interrogate someone or imagine if i did it would have been a conventional war where things would have been very different i received a telephone call. from mr saddam he said can you help me he said the americans took my money and they hurt me very bad and i just came from abu ghraib he told me of one incident where. you know he was strip nude and they tied a rope to his penis for with seven or eight other men and then they would these are american personalities telling me and they would push one man and then all of them would fall in and they'd be joking and laughing and mocking him.

i would ask him who was doing this to you mr sonner and he would say well they were there were two types of people one was dressed some type of military person i wear no army and then the other type would be in three billion clothing i go what do you mean three billion clover he was like normal pants like an enormous panther a normal shirt. so that's the first time when it struck me that there is another element being involved here in abu ghraib another type of person there. you know with the local that hans used to the day i was arrested i went to work in the house was built with that i'm an electrical engineer the. i was transported to the abu ghraib prison on january the first of two thousand and full. of about there was a person wearing civilian clothes and giving the orders. i think it belongs to

private companies. they put me back in the cell with my hands again and ripped my clothes off in a savage way in which. one of their strategy is is to tie a rope around the penis and cut off the circulation that obstacle core. idea of what's the purpose of this there are lots of the purpose of the injection they gave me so that to this day i can't have any more children idea. what is the military using private companies to interrogate detainees and. these two companies for certain shillington and say see. when i saw the photographs for the first time and i said to the commander of the criminal investigation division who is showing it to me. i said why are the translators around the prisoners why were the translators in the cellblock and he said ma'am those aren't translators those are

khaki interrogators. cauchy was hired by the department of interior out of a little town in arizona called sierra vista and they were hired to do database work and that contract which was sort of a blanket contract that allowed them to do a whole bunch of different things was used to do interrogation abu ghraib. so what was a contract to do clerical work i did he work turned out to be getting information not from a computer but from human beings in a notorious prison in iraq at the time of the scandals in the spring of two thousand and four roughly fifty percent of the interrogator is a private contractor. present attempts to address what i believe is a very legitimate and serious concern and come to light recent days and back to the use or misuse of contractors in the treatment of detainees in iraq quite simply

madam president this amendment would prohibit the use of contractors in interrogations of prisoners and in offensive military operations it just seems to me abundantly clear that we cannot hire private contractors to perform a function here at the governmental inherently sensitive indeed inherently explosive and for which there must be accountability as is the interrogation of prisoners corporations exist to make a profit and in when they're hired to do jobs whether it's the provision of water. you know interrogation of prisoners their job is to get as much work as possible make as much profit as possible now that doesn't work in the field of intelligence period you do not put personnel who do not have allegiance and one hundred percent loyalty to. america you do not put them in sensitive key

government. i'm activities like military intelligence gathering it creates a conflict too because we were uncertain you know we knew what our chain of command was that was very clear and we were forced to memorize it and follow it but what's the khaki chain of command. to follow that decision as because if these companies and these prisons have become training grounds for torture. and by viewing i was surprised by my arrest when the next day i was transported to abu ghraib on that they took the bag off my head. and i found myself in front of a military man interrogators a group of about eight or ten of. the year related at me and they put their weapons in my private apartments in addition to the beating that it does. feel like you'd hear people screaming for help.

from beating and torture and the booking of guards. there was going to approach we have these rules. but we're not going to spend that much time making sure that you. know about what's going on. there are. a contract tour safely in an office in the united states somewhere so no direct supervision and to just simply say well i guess they got out of control i don't know what they were taking their instructions from it seems to excuse of all of them i have reproduced an excerpt on the job posting as it was reprinted in the washington post i made ten on the poster here behind me and let me read it says under minimal supervision well if. he were under minimal supervision in two

thousand and three pentagon essentially panicked and a very desperate secretary of defense did whatever he had to do very very quickly to try to get more intelligence and that meant running out and hiring a bunch of contractors who didn't know what they were doing and putting them wrong with the chain of command military intelligence that's what they did they were.

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the news in secret laboratory to mccurry was able to build includes most sophisticated robots which all unfortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tim's mission to teach creation why it should care about humans and. this is why you should care only on the dog. but the contracting business in iraq is very very lucrative.

i was getting really angry i mean especially because i knew that a lot of these prisoners that i saw with ease injuries from from abuse and torture really hadn't done anything they were part of the insurgency they were just picked up for no reason at all who were interrogating taxi drivers and pizza delivery guys . it was just you know we call them average off it using methods such as torture and also using people who are not qualified to do this job has resulted bad information and therefore. problems for national security and for the soldiers because you're you're getting information that's no good in a lot of areas where you start noticing a lot of you know

a lot of hostility against american soldiers it's not because the soldiers are doing a lot of long things it's because something maybe the communication that had been transmitted to them is going to transmit it to them probably and professionally as surface so most of us interest these are tight and they wish they were high i think his long standing contracts providing critical information technology and support services for some of our nation's most valuable defense assets. under a contract with the u.s. army's intelligence and security command titan is over four thousand linguists that provided valuable mission critical services titan is the company that provides the link was and continues to drive the linguists throughout iraq they're the biggest provider in this business. they were so desperate to get people to fill these positions as translators that they were just hiring anybody that. approached somebody and obviously had command of the english language in addition to the arabic language or first the or whatever it may have been the toughest

people who maybe spoke the language but. was broken but could not read it a right. english. and they were they will know given a test no one was given a test i was never given a test but this a was given was a phone conversation from minute. a small thing which was supplied by did work closely with titan all year long while i was in iraq. and i can say that a lot of the translators were trained at all there was no ledgers there was no soldiers agent there was no training there was no follow up even a system of if these teams really translating or don't over eating out inflating given their opinions probably as a result a lot of people got hurt a lot of people get killed and medicine was lost because someone wants to make money and wants to have a fetch up in his pocket. it's

. here you have the m.p.'s who engage and participated in horrific conduct are being held accountable for their actions why aren't they u.s. contractors the civilian corporate personnel why aren't they being held accountable for their actions if you are a u.s. soldier and you heard an iraqi civilian and that becomes know it you will be court martialed but if you are a u.s. contractor and you kill iraqi civilian that becomes known you will be sent home and then you can come back the following week and you can work for a different contractor so here we have the two ringleaders or abuse abu ghraib very explicitly sang and sit in many cases what was happening was they were being

ordered to abuse these detainees by civilian contractors these guys are in prison for eighteen years total between two of them and there's no contractors in prison. i asked your secretary of defense a couple months ago what law governs their actions is wrong and i ask you go ahead . are any of these allegations being investigated. there my recollection is and i think it's ok to say this is that the investigations are ongoing and that. time will tell somehow these contractors have leverage power in washington and the government feels like they want to protect these people maybe they want to protect these the security of these contracts and they want to protect them from prosecution also of the managers and most of their good people we dealt with work afoot that they were ex-military officers haven't enough assyrians all major military contract is have

a board of directors and the senior management that is composed of senior retired military personnel into the ring and this allows them to be able to go get contracts. possible. as we are kind of the bull's dr. washington is a phenomenally incestuous place where retired senior officers capitol hill staffers and defense industry men here the usual suspects come back again and again. mostly for the next five. or. practice for years. cleaning off my home. top recipients of money from halliburton titan cauchy and blackwater are the two chairmen of the committees in congress in the house of representatives that oversee know what terry matters and spending the

major corporations he's a cartel a monopoly corporations they've figured out how to the legally buy influence. i would echo the words of pope john paul the second profit by itself is not a sufficient motivation for business endeavors you're operating in the realm of greed you're not operating the realm of morality. i went to iraq and came back was so heartbreaking was that i found that we weren't that we weren't

always the good guys and it was very disillusioning for me because i'd grown up with this like dream of america what america was. when i saw a dream that upgrade been and what didn't become i felt heartbroken i feel like i didn't know what it was to be an american because i saw what i thought america was destroyed and disgraced. when they went into iraq a subsidiary of halliburton which is k.b.r. kellogg brown and root. on the scene immediately. they were

logistics people they were mechanics and they were also contracted to speak in the process of setting up shower points laundry facilities dining facilities that really searching for any opportunity to take on what would be traditionally military role in the using these contractors you gain a lot of efficiencies you gain a lot of expertise and then specialisations it was devastating because they took over my job when i could be actively becoming a better soldier and be becoming more proficient in my job and set up on guard duty to wait around while k.b.r. contractors are doing the job that i had to train them to do and there was so much money being given away over there to contractors they were very often sit down with soldiers particularly from reserve or national guard same and you know what do you make it three thousand dollars a month over here you know i make that in

a week that's certainly affected retention because i don't know i don't know why anyone any military person would re-enlist. to do the same job when they could get out of the military and make you know six times the money and do the same job you talk about how do you know and in eight more months going to be out of here and we're making one hundred forty grand across the board people lost their jobs quartermaster companies mechanic and in logistics soldiers were involved with their jobs or outsource to k.b.r. if you don't know k.b.r. you have never been to iraq. because he are everywhere. you have hundreds if not thousands of these trucks driving north and south on these roads every day bringing supplies to other military bases.

most of the people who are trading for. foreign workers they are from pakistan. india. sometimes there would be a match driving the trucks u.s. civilians. heard about the jobs of the truck driver friend in calexico california we were sitting there waiting for a load he told me this was his last load he was going over scenes from there you know i sent my resume and. i thought i was really going to be doing a lot of reconstruction in iraq. well i could see me holy fuel maybe to a place i had loaders and dozers you know. we never wanted to go be in a battle or fight a fight we want to take over for a loser makes money to reconstruct iraq his brother was in the navy can so he always wished that he had done something like that he's just

a good old boy and he thought it was such a great cause to go and help rebuild and got a job with halliburton he was going to drive a truck in iraq. steve said it over there to get us financially set for not only retirement but to you know help to kids go through college he would take on anything he thought that it would benefit his family. the great russian glorious. prevailing over houses and asperity. to reenact an epic parade through paris. come a complete that triumph. with people's admiration two hundred. zero zero.

zero. parents versus social workers document that stop me that damn good many children have become a prize used to find full why does the lord threaten families of the social order to see me in the form of they have a right of will for minimal anything but they have any kind of suspicion about the world will think of your children are often a just busier at bringing up kids than their own mum and dad. in some other we have an industry that is so. concentrated on. the for trade with children. wealthy british style. that sometimes.

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