Iraq - Inglese

Cutting Costs, Bending Rules, And a Trail of Broken Lives

[Washington Post Europe]

BAGHDAD -- The convoy was ambushed in broad daylight last Nov. 16, dozens of armed men swarming over 37 tractor-trailers stretching for more than a mile on southern Iraq's main highway. The attackers seized four Americans and an Austrian employed by Crescent Security Group, a small private securi...