Soldiers of Fortune Story aired: Monday, August 15, 2005
Among the hundreds of thousands of armed men and women in Iraq, there are estimated to be some 25-thousand armed employees of what are called "private security companies." These workers are neither trained by the U.S military nor held accountable to military rules. Yet, by all accounts, they've taken part in some of the fiercest fighting that's taken place in Iraq since the American invasion began. The workers, mostly men and soldiers, don't like to be called mercenaries, but many of them earn up to 700 dollars a day to perform defense jobs in Iraq.
Guests:
Daniel Bergner, writer for the New York Times Magazine
