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However, the field is loaded, including 2006 AMA supermoto leader Jeff Ward, 2005 AMA supermoto champion Cassidy Anderson, seven-time supercross champion McGrath, 2005 X Games bronze medalist Chad Reed and Travis Pastrana buy wizard of oz . The freestyle event, which began Saturday, concludes at the Home Depot Center tin man of oz . Advancing to the finals, where each rider will make two runs, are Pastrana, who leads with a score of 92. 20, followed by Mike Mason with 90. 20, Adam Jones with 89. 40, Jim McNeil with 88. 60 and Mat Rebeaud with 87. 40. **RALLY CAR* What happened Saturday: Pastrana and navigator Christian Edstrom won the gold medal in the inaugural race when Colin McRae flipped his Subaru about 100 yards from the finish line tinman of oz . It was the second gold medal of the games for Pastrana and his seventh overall dorthy of oz . McRae, the 1995 World Rally Champion, said his rollover cost him and his navigator, Nicky Grist, about 1 1/2 seconds. Still, they finished the ninth "Super Special" stage in 1 minute 57. 11 seconds, but it wasn't enough to hold off Pastrana and Edstrom's 1:56. 49, which gave them a total time of 12:02. 19 McRae and Grist finished in 12:02. 71.

Subaru swept the top four positions. *Staff writers Dan Arritt, Martin Henderson and Peter Yoon contributed to this report. dark side of the moon wizard of oz . WASHINGTON — The behavior of private security contractors in Iraq is in direct conflict with the goals of the U. S military, Defense Secretary Robert M scarecrow of oz . Gates said Thursday in an unusually frank critique, adding that the guards' mistreatment of Iraqis is hindering Pentagon efforts at winning hearts and minds. Gates said at a Pentagon news conference that he planned to meet with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in coming days to iron out new regulations governing the conduct of the estimated 8,500 armed guards working for the Pentagon and State Department in Iraq. Last month, the Defense secretary sent a five-man team to Iraq to investigate contractor oversight after the high-profile killing of 17 Iraqis in a Baghdad shooting involving Blackwater USA, the private security contractor hired to protect U. S wizard of emerald city . diplomats. Although Blackwater works for the State Department, the Pentagon employs the vast majority of such hired guns in Iraq -- about 7,300 -- and Gates within days ordered commanders in the country to be more aggressive in using military law to discipline contractors in their areas of responsibility. Pentagon officials have said Gates also is considering a proposal to put the security contractors under a new Baghdad-based military command so Pentagon officials would have more direct oversight of their actions. Gates did not publicly advocate such a restructuring Thursday, but he suggested he was planning a more extensive review of how the U. S wicked witch of oz . regulates the private security guards. Gates said the mission of many contractors in Iraq -- to protect their U. S. government employers regardless of other consequences -- was "at cross-purposes to our larger mission in Iraq. "The larger mission includes persuading "more and more Iraqis [to] see the coalition forces as their friends and their allies," he said. Wizard of Oz tickets "As I see it, right now those missions are in conflict, because in the objective of completing the mission of delivering a principal safely to a destination, just based on everything I've read and what our own team has reported, there have been instances where, to put it mildly, the Iraqis have been offended and not treated properly," Gates said. The Pentagon's increasingly critical scrutiny of its contractors contrasts with the response by the State Department, which for weeks after the Sept 16 shooting defended Blackwater's behavior in Iraq. This month, however, Rice ordered a complete revamp of its policies governing Blackwater's operations, ordering all convoys to include U. S.

government monitors and video cameras to record actions taken by the guards. The State Department has ordered a separate review of its oversight of Blackwater and its two other private security contractors in Iraq, DynCorp International and Triple Canopy dorothy gale wizard of oz . Although Gates said he did not believe there were conflicts between the departments' reviews, he said he would meet with Rice to iron out any differences . Relations between the active-duty military and private security contractors, long strained because of soldiers' perceptions that the armed guards undermine their mission, has become increasingly uneasy, with military officials accusing the contractors of recruiting away their best personnel. Erik Prince, Blackwater's chief executive, testified before a congressional hearing this month that his company does not actively recruit soldiers in uniform. But at a meeting with military writers Thursday, the Army's top personnel official said the service was being forced to constantly raise retention bonuses for technically skilled service members to keep them from leaving the military for contractors. "It takes about 10 years to build a major, but it takes decades to build these highly, highly skilled special operators, and those are the ones who are the most attractive to the contractors," said Lt Gen Michael D witch of oz . Rochelle, the Army's deputy chief of staff for personnel, referring to the Army's elite Special Operations units glinda of oz . "It's almost impossible to be fully competitive. "Gates has asked military lawyers whether it is possible for the Pentagon to include noncompete clauses in its contracts with private security firms that would bar firms from recruiting among active-duty units toto of oz Wizard of Oz - imdb . He has not decided whether to impose such requirements. In Iraq, Blackwater works for the State Department, not the Pentagon. The firm is employed by the Defense Department elsewhere overseas. Despite Gates' conclusion that private security firms are undermining the U. S.