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spins it for the mercenaries.
When they first arrived for the current job, Peters and his team were stationed in the extremely dangerous Baghdad International Airport area. They made the 17-mile drive down what they called "Hell's highway" to the Green Zone for work every day. When one of the Iraqi engineers he was working with found out a contact was moving out of his Green Zone space, Peters jumped at the chance to rent it.
He signed what he thought was a legitimate rental agreement with the Iraqi owner of the apartment, which is in a building of mostly former Iraqi Republican Guard soldiers. He paid the presumed Iraqi owner $10,000 for the space and spent another $3,000 on furniture.
But when he arrived at the apartment on June 3, the Iraqi police told them to vacate the area. An American police consultant at a nearby Iraqi police station recommended Peters call Casey for help.
According to Peters, when he called Casey the next day, help was the last thing he received.
"If I had to put it in a word, he was vicious," Peters told FOXNews.com, referring to his first conversation with the officer. "The guy came back really strong and made it very, very clear that he absolutely wanted me out of there, that the whole thrust of why I was over here was to make money."
Peters said Casey didn't give him any explanation why he needed to leave and issued him a warning: "If I can find you, I'll have you out in 24 hours."
"Not having a safe place to live in Iraq is extremely unsafe and dangerous, to be evicted and cast out in the street was unimaginable and certainly unacceptable," Peters wrote in a diary he is keeping about his situation, a copy of which was obtained by FOXNews.com.
This unaccountable mercenary, profiting from the misery of war, whines that the US Army hates him. Well they do -- these "security contractors" act as they're not beholden to any laws, they shoot at our troops, they make more money in a month or two than many soldiers make in a year, and their cowboy antics generate resentment and put our troops in even greater risk.
Gilliard says:
Mercenaries have no rights under the laws of war. The colonel is under no obligation to help a rich mercenary live in safety. If Iraq is too dangerous for him, he has the option that every 11B would love to have. He can go home. The Colonel can't, the MP's manning the guardposts can't. The Trauma nurses can't. But he can go home at any time of his choosing.
Of course our soldiers hate them, regardless how much the wingers might idolize and defend them.