Violence Forces U.S. Contractor to Drop Iraq Work
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Rising violence and associated security  costs have prompted a U.S. company to pull out of a $325  million contract to rebuild transportation infrastructure in  Iraq, a military spokesman said on Wednesday.
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The Defense Department plans to continue hiring private contractors to provide security at reconstruction projects in Iraq and to train U.S. and Iraqi military officers in counterinsurgency, despite problems with past contracts for such jobs that traditionally have been done by military personnel.
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An Arlington, Virginia company has announced that they are withdrawing from Iraq due to the cost and quality of security there. Contrack International became the first American company to leave the embattled
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The announcement by the Iraqi government today follows the banning of Blackwater USA, an American contractor, after a shooting that left eight Iraqis dead.
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An international construction company has pulled out of its contract to rebuild Iraq&#39;s transportation systems, deciding it was too dangerous
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With violence down in Baghdad, U.S. troops will fan out into communities on the rim of the capital to shut down car bomb factories, which remain a threat despite a recent drop in execution-style killings in the city, the U.S. military said Monday.
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A slain American contractor feared for his life after turning whistleblower
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BAGHDAD, Dec. 22 -- Members of a U.S.-funded volunteer security force in western Baghdad on Saturday threatened to abandon their partnership with the American military after an explosion killed four of their men, a blast they blamed on Shiite militias and Iraqi security forces, according to two...
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CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts  - Sectarian violence in Iraq has become "self-sustaining," increasing the challenge of stabilizing the country, the top U.S. intelligence official said on Friday.
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U.S. contractor Contrack International  has pulled out of a $325 million Iraqi transportation project  because of violence, a U.S. official said on Wednesday.
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Future of private contractors in doubt as US apologises over recent Baghdad killings.
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Thursday criticized security contractors in Iraq as Baghdad piled more pressure on the State Department to pull the Blackwater firm out of Iraq after deadly shootings last month.
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US contractor Contrack International has pulled out of a $325 million (170 million pound) Iraqi transportation project because of violence, a US official says.
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Execution-style killings have fallen sharply in Baghdad since the security crackdown began this month, the No. 2 U.S. commander said Tuesday.
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Violence in Iraq has fallen to its lowest level since before a 2006 mosque attack which unleashed the deadliest phase of the Iraq war, the deputy commander of U.S. forces in Iraq said on Thursday.
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An Iraqi Islamist group has beheaded an Iraqi contractor who it says was working for American forces. A video on an Islamist website from the group, Ansar al-Sunna, shows a militant beheading Iraqi national Barfa Nafea Dawoud Ibrahim.
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America's outgoing No. 2 commander in Iraq said Tuesday that curbing unemployment and improving services would help reduce the violence in the country, warning that military muscle cannot win the war alone.