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The Boys from Baghdad: Iraqi Commandos Trained by U.S. Contractor
By, Pratap Chatterjee
Special to CorpWatch
September 20, 2007

Iraqi commandos are being training by USIS, a Virginia-based company that was once owned by the Carlyle Group. One of multiple "security" forces being created with $20 billion in U.S. funds, these Emergency Response Units may be stoking civil unrest as they accompany U.S. troops on raids.

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