AP Enterprise: A Private Army Grows Around the U.S. Mission in Iraq and Around the World By Jim Krane Associated Press Writer Published: Oct 30, 2003 In Iraq, private contractors do just about everything a soldier would do. They sling Spam in mess tents. They tote guns along base perimeters. They shoot. They get shot. Sometimes they get killed. And it's not just in Iraq, but around the world - in conflict zones from Liberia to Kosovo to Afghanistan - that the United States is putting hired help behind the front lines to ease the burden of its overworked...