First Contractor Leaving Iraq Due to Safety Concerns
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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 Iraqi government announced Monday it was ordering Blackwater USA, the security firm that protects U.S. diplomats, to leave the country after what it said was the fatal shooting of eight Iraqi civilians following a car bomb attack against a State Department convoy.
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The first batch of Japanese troops began pulling out of Iraq Friday, with about 30 arriving in Kuwait on their way home, news reports said Friday. A C-130 transport aircraft of Japan&#039;s air force carrying about 30 troops arrived at a Kuwaiti airport Friday afternoon, Kyodo News agency reported from Kuwait. Public broadcaster NHK had a similar report.
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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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BAGHDAD, Nov. 17 -- It was a routine trip, along the same stretch of highway the contractors of Crescent Security Group drove nearly every day. As their convoy neared the Iraqi police checkpoint outside the border town of Safwan on Thursday afternoon, everything seemed normal, according to accounts...
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Despite a stepped-up commitment from the United States to take in Iraqis who are in danger because they worked for the military, few are signing up to go, officials say.
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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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WASHINGTON -- Contractors who have worked in Iraq are returning home with the same kinds of combat-related mental health problems that afflict US military personnel, according to contractors, industry officials, and mental health specialists.
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Denmark ends the evacuation of some 200 Iraqis who it feared faced danger for their links to its troops in Iraq.
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ELEANOR HALL: Foreign aid workers are reportedly leaving the country after two Italian aid workers were captured by insurgents in Baghdad yesterday.
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Kenneth Bigley, the British hostage beheaded in Iraq, was a widely traveled engineering contractor with a life tainted by tragedy who had hoped to retire within months.
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Rising violence and associated security costs have prompted a U.S. company to pull out of a &#36;325 million contract to rebuild transportation infrastructure in Iraq, a military spokesman said on Wednesday.
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BAGHDAD -- Rusty Barber was sitting at his desk in a comfortable if spartan office inside Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone when the first explosion sounded, close enough to rattle the building and his nerves.
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TAIYEH, Iraq -- The distress call rang out over the radio. In the midst of one of the largest current military operations in Iraq, Capt. Mike Stinchfield recognized this was, so far, his most urgent mission of the day.
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Iraq&#39;s flagship air carrier, Iraqi Airlines, took off Saturday on its first flight in 14 years with its one plane flying between Amman and Baghdad.
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About 1,000 contractors have been killed in Iraq since the war began and nearly 13,000 have been injured.
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LOUISVILLE, KY. - In July 2003, Amanda Young said goodbye to her father as he left for Iraq to work for a contractor and help the family out of debt...