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Saturday, June 12, 2010

Iraq: Baghdad To Cull A Million Stray Dogs

Filed under: Fish and Game,Iraq,Medical — Tags: Baghdad, culling, Dogs, dogs of war, Fish and Game, health, Iraq, Medical, strays — Matt @ 1:53 PM

This is actually a good thing. The wild dog population in Iraq is out of control and a huge problem there. One thing for everyone to think about when you are out there is don’t be surprised if you see these guys walking around with shotguns, shooting up dogs in the streets and cities. It would be very easy to mistake these guys as the enemy or think there is some kind of firefight with all of the gun fire caused by this culling operation. It looks like they are operating in teams of four–two shooters, two vets, and possibly some police escorting them around. And this is just for Baghdad. I can’t even imagine how big the stray dog population is throughout Iraq. –Matt

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Iraq dogs

Baghdad to cull a million stray dogs as rogue canine population soars

June 11, 2010

More than a million stray dogs roaming Baghdad are facing destruction.

The initiative has so far led to 42,000 strays being killed in only two months.

Teams of riflemen and vets are trying to thin out a rogue canine population that has reached at least 1,250,000.

Numbers grew hugely after the fall of Saddam because of the lawless state of the Iraqi capital.

But with the streets now much safer, the authorities are trying to clear out the stray dogs.

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Friday, April 10, 2009

Industry Talk: David Isenberg’s Final Dogs of War Column

Filed under: Industry Talk — Tags: column, dogs of war, Isenberg, UPI — Matt @ 5:12 PM

This sucks, and I really enjoyed reading David’s stuff. He has done so much for furthering the discussion about our industry, and there will certainly be a void. I hope he continues to throw out a Dogs of War style story every once in awhile. So here is the last story. –Matt

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Dogs of War: Lions and contractors and robots. Oh my!

Published: April 10, 2009 at 9:00 AM

By DAVID ISENBERG

WASHINGTON, April 10 (UPI) — This is my final Dogs of War column. Since starting in January 2008, I have covered many different aspects of private military and security contracting, but they have been only a small portion of the total number of issues worth examining.

Like any other issue, there is good and bad news when it comes to contractors doing work that once upon a time people could only conceive of the government doing.

The good news is that despite the often-superficial coverage of the issue, people recognize that the use of contractors is not going away. So rather than wasting time complaining about it, people are dealing with it.

For example, the Obama administration has launched a campaign to change government contracting. In February it introduced a set of “reforms” designed to reduce state spending on private-sector providers of military security, intelligence and other critical services and return certain outsourced work back to government.

Note I wrote “return certain outsourced work back to government.” That is not mere semantics. The Obama administration seems to recognize that contractors are now the American Express card; one does not go to war or do “contingency operations,” to use the favored government euphemism, without them. And if it doesn’t, it will certainly realize it as it conducts its own surge of U.S. military forces to Afghanistan.

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