Are these the humanitarians of the future?

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	Are these the humanitarians of the future?

petercasier

12-29-2008 8:13 PM

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blackwater, aid, humanitarian

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/5a4c1b92-e9e3-4c33-9320-2db724a13182/AA510B60-BAB3-4E00-BE98-BEFC14790196/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.theroadtothehorizon.org/2008/12/are-these-humanitarians-of-future.html" href="http://www.theroadtothehorizon.org/2008/12/are-these-humanitarians-of-future.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.theroadtothehorizon.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theroadtothehorizon.org/2008/12/are-these-humanitarians-of-future.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.theroadtothehorizon.org/img/DDDCF287-4065-48A0-9449-99950D2E73F0" alt="Blackwater: humanitarians of the future?" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theroadtothehorizon.org/2008/12/are-these-humanitarians-of-future.html">Points to remember, though:<BR />- Private Security Companies "have proven" to be "a viable alternative" for work too dirty for regular armed forces.<BR />- Their work-ticket bubble in Afghanistan and Iraq will soon come to an end.<BR />- Aid work becomes increasingly complex and dangerous<BR /><DIV>- Host governments and UN member states become more and more reluctant to provide the needed security or peace keeping forces.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/AA510B60-BAB3-4E00-BE98-BEFC14790196/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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