America's Hidden War Dead
By Howard Witt
The Chicago Tribune
Monday 26 March 2007
More than 770 civilians working for US firms have lost their lives supporting the military in Iraq, and some families are now speaking out.
...If those deaths-of truck drivers and cooks, laundry workers and security guards-are added to the military toll, the human cost of the U.S. war effort in Iraq is nearly 25 percent higher...
...The most common estimate of the number of contractors currently working for U.S. firms in Iraq is 100,000, according to military analysts, but that figure includes unknown proportions of Americans, Iraqis and citizens of other countries...
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