Iraq revokes security contractor license after shootout
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Iraq announced on Monday it had withdrawn the license of a U.S. security firm and would prosecute employees it said were involved in a shooting in Baghdad in which 11 people were killed.
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Sentiment is growing in the Bush Administration to end the legal protections that contractors like Blackwater have in Iraq
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A major contractor in Iraq has terminated its effort to rebuild the transportation system there, in part, because of the high costs related to security, military and company officials said Wednesday.
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ARLINGTON, Va. - An Arlington based engineering and construction company has become the first major US firm to withdraw from a reconstruction contract in Iraq.
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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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The U.S. government has halted civilian ground traffic out of Baghdad's Green Zone after a weekend gun battle between insurgents and private security contractors that Iraqi officials said left eight civilians dead.
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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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BAGHDAD, Sept. 19 -- Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki promised Wednesday that American security contractors would be held accountable for opening fire on Iraqis in downtown Baghdad last weekend.
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Iraqi government ministers today backed the Interior Ministry's decision to close Blackwater USA's operations in Iraq after the security firm was involved in a firefight that authorities say killed eight civilians. The firm said it was protecting a State Department convoy.
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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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Iraqâs government has revoked the license of Blackwater USA after shots fired from a convoy killed eight Iraqis.
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Iraq cancels the licence of US private security firm Blackwater after eight civilians died in a shootout.
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US security firm Blackwater resumes work in Baghdad days after a shootout which killed 11 Iraqis.
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A leading American contractor has pulled out of a major Iraqi reconstruction project, the latest sign of how the ever-increasing violence in Iraq threatens to overwhelm America&#39;s
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Iraq closed its borders with Iran and Syria as U.S. and Iraqi troops tightened their grip on Baghdad on Thursday, setting up more checkpoints that stopped and searched even official convoys for weapons.
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A federal judge yesterday ordered the military to temporarily refrain from awarding the largest security contract in Iraq. The order followed an unusual series of events set off when a U.S. Army veteran filed a protest against the government practice of hiring what he calls mercenaries, according to...
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WASHINGTON -- The State Department's security chief resigned on Wednesday in the wake of last month's deadly Blackwater USA shooting incident in Baghdad and growing questions about the use of private contractors to protect diplomats in Iraq.