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Hundreds of Afghanistan contractor deaths go unreported
Submitted by Michael Kleen on Thu, 2010-07-15 08:47
In one of the least examined aspects of President Obama's escalation of the Afghan war, armed private security contractors are being killed in action by the hundreds -- at a rate more than four times that of U.S. troops, according to a previously unreported congressional study.
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