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Auditors: Private security in Iraq cost over $6B (AP)

US soldiers salute during a ceremony at Camp Eggers in Kabul in September. Crowned with success in Iraq, General David Petraeus, who takes command Friday of US military forces in the Middle East and Central Asia, inherits the next big challenge: devising a winning strategy in Afghanistan.(AFP/File/Shah Marai)AP - No one knows for sure, but auditors think the U.S. has paid well over $6 billion to private security companies who’ve been guarding diplomats, troops, Iraqi officials and reconstruction workers in Iraq.

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