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...Chaired by former US vice-president Dan Quayle, Cerberus Capital Management’s $30bn holdings include the controversial DynCorp, one of the biggest private defence contractors in the US....
...Its growth has echoes of the prominent and often controversial part played by western contractors such as Blackwater, now known as Academi, and DynCorp in Iraq and Afghanistan after the September 11 2001...
...And SRA International and DynCorp were standalone defence consultants that were also acquired by financial sponsors....
...It earned $40.8bn during the past decade, while Agility, the logistics company, and DynCorp, which specialises in security, earned $9bn and $7.4bn respectively, according to a US government report....
...This spring, Alenia ended the maintenance subcontract and hired DynCorp International to replace it, the officials said....
...It earned $40.8bn during the decade, while Agility and DynCorp earned $9bn and $7.4bn, respectively....
...Two contractors that have previously won big overseas security and policing contracts – Xe, formerly known as Blackwater, and DynCorp – have drawn heavy criticism for their work in Iraq and Afghanistan....
...The US embassy said an American working for Dyncorp, the US security company, and another foreign national were among the dead....
...The group has a long track record in the defence and government services sectors including its sale of DynCorp International to Cerberus Capital Management in April for $1.5bn....
...Also on Monday, a US civilian contractor working for DynCorp, the security company, was killed when a team of suicide bombers attacked a police training base in Kandahar, Afghanistan’s second biggest city...
...In the 1990s, Dyncorp employees in Bosnia were found to be operating a prostitution ring. The guilty parties suffered nothing worse than dismissal and the company suffered no collective penalty....
...Mr Jones says police advisers contracted from Dyncorp, a US company, represent a “mixed bag” of knowledgeable officers and “people who don’t have a lot of experience and don’t have any understanding of the...
...In the US, Armor’s rivals include DynCorp and Triple Canopy....
...In one case in 2004 an employee of the US company DynCorp caused outrage by slapping the minister of transport in the face while protecting President Hamid Karzai....
...Henry Waxman, committee chairman, and Tom Davis, the top Republican on the committee, also criticised the state department for a lack of oversight of Blackwater, which along with Triple Canopy and DynCorp...
...the controversy deepened when the special inspector-general for Iraq reconstruction criticised the state department for its failure to “know specifically what it received for most of the $1.2bn” paid to DynCorp...
...He added that neither of the two other state department security contactors in Iraq, Triple Canopy and DynCorp, would be affected....
...Instead, Mr Waxman focused on other incidents involving Blackwater, and the growing outsourcing of the military, which has proved a boon to US companies such as Blackwater, DynCorp and Triple Canopy, and...
...Afghan security forces trained by Dyncorp, a private US defence contractor, are to carry out the spraying....
...crucifixion to private contractors and protection of the empire to barbarian clans, so the Pentagon now uses ”extraordinary rendition” to outsource interrogation, and calls on such companies as MPRI, AirScan and DynCorp...
...Dyncorp International, a large security group that has suffered many more casualties than Kroll, said it had no plans to pull out. The US State Department did not return calls seeking comment....
...In 2003 it acquired DynCorp, the US private military company, for $950m....
...The government of President Alvaro Uribe, aided by US companies such as Dyncorp, is striving to end Colombia's long-held status as the world's biggest cocaine producer....
...Associated Press said the dead Americans were all employees of DynCorp, the US private security firm....
...There have been several fatal attacks on foreign aid and reconstruction workers in Afghanistan over the past two years, including the bombing of a guesthouse used by the American security company Dyncorp...
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