You have to wonder about the mindset

of the people who take these civilian jobs in Iraq.

"There are something like 150 attacks per day of one kind or another and most of them are intercepted," said Rick Bardon of the Center for Strategic & International Studies. "So there's been some success in reducing the impact of these attacks, but that's a lot of action that we're involved in all over the country."
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Attacks against private contractors, who provide everything from security to catering to engineering to consulting in Iraq, are on the rise, with an estimated 60 civilians of various nationalities losing their lives.

They're all former, highly trained Special Operations guys, but you'd think that once they got out, they would avoid these kinds of risks.

I suppose...the world has never been short of mercenaries.