UNACCOUNTABLES. In the post below, J. writes: "Because Paul Bremer granted private contractors immunity from Iraqi laws in 2004 and because military laws don't apply to civilians it is unclear if any laws at all apply to the private mercenaries." For more on the legal no-man's-land in which contractors reside, see Tara McKelvey's feature story in the September 2006 print issue, "The Unaccountables."
--Sam Rosenfeld
