Private security contractor start project to record PMC/PSC casualties in WoT

Hey,

As many of us know, the US casualties in the War on Terror have long been inaccurate, due to the fact that whoever counts the dead US servicemen working in Iraq and Afghanistan only count US soldiers, and not other participants in the war - for example, private security contractors, or members of Private Military Companies - sometimes accurately or inaccurately referred to as "mercenaries". I don't have the numbers at hand right now, but from what I've heard, the death toll among private security contractors in Iraq has been very high. And, again, nobody so far have kept records of those killed.

Well, now, there is someone out there who is planning to do just that, namely James G., the founder of Death Valley Magazine, a net-based magazine written by private security contractors, firearms instructors, and other security professionals.

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James G. is now the leading force behind the creation of the Civilian Contractor Casualty Accountability Project, or the CCCA-Project, which intends to begin collecting records of dead, MIA, and kidnaped civilian contractors - not just private security contractors, mind you, and not just Americans, but many foreigners as well - in the War on Terror.

The CCCA-Project Website

This means, finally, we might get some more accurate numbers on the true death tolls of the War on Terror. One of the great "benefits" of using private security contractors in Iraq was, for the Bush Administration, that they were not counted when it came to reporting the death toll of the war, which made the numbers look much less grim than they actually were. And they were bad enough in their own right, of course.

Either way, this is definitely a step in the right direction, in my opinion.

It is, however, a shame that the US government didn't do this themselves.