<p>Just out of curiosity . . . how would you classify a private contractor?
Only persons working for US corporations? Only US citizens working for US corporations?</p>
<p>If a person is working for an other than governmental entity–an NGO for lack of a better term–whether for-profit or non-profit, in a function previously carried out by military personnel, how would that person be classified?</p>
<p>If a multi-national corp, U.S., Kuwaiti, French, or UK employs an Iraqi, that is not a “private contractor”?</p>
<p>The quote below said the 118,000 were working IN Iraq, not FOR Iraq.
In any event, it seems that most personnel ove there are being paid with US dollars, so how does that factor into the equation?</p>