US contractors in Iraq shootout
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Officials investigate after at least eight Iraqi civilians are reported killed by private US security contractors.
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A U.S. soldier was killed in Iraq's turbulent northern city of Mosul, and an Iraqi contractor working with the American military was gunned down in a drive-by shooting Friday west of the Iraqi capital, U.S. and Iraqi reports said.
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Insurgents fired six mortar rounds into central Baghdad on Saturday night and smoke was seen rising close to a hotel complex used by foreign contractors and media but there were no reports of casualties, the US military said.
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US forces traded fire with insurgents in the Sunni stronghold of Ramadi following a series of raids, residents said Thursday, and at least eight people were reported killed.
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A translator employed by San Diego&#39;s Titan Corp. was beheaded in Iraq yesterday by insurgents who also beheaded a Turkish contractor working at a US air base.
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At least three Americans were killed when a powerful bomb exploded outside the compound of an American contractor.
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Insurgents threatened to kill two  Americans and a Briton captured in Baghdad and launched a  suicide car bomb attack on Iraqi security forces in the  northern city of Kirkuk on Saturday that killed at least 23  people.
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Militants surrounded a bus full of unarmed Iraqi contractors employed by American forces as they rode to work Sunday morning and gunned down 17 of them, in the latest
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Insurgents launched strikes on Saturday at United States and Iraqi outposts across Iraq, killing at least a dozen Iraqi police officers and national guardsmen
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Insurgents in Iraq kill at least 11 people by locking them into a house and blowing it up, the US military says.
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BAGHDAD, Sept. 17 -- The Iraqi government said today it had revoked the license of Blackwater USA, a private security company that guards U.S. Embassy personnel in Iraq, following a shootout in downtown Baghdad on Sunday that left at least nine people dead.
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The initial U.S. Embassy report on a Sept. 16 shooting incident in Baghdad involving Blackwater USA, a private security firm, depicts an afternoon of mayhem that included a car bomb, a shootout in a crowded traffic circle and an armed standoff between Blackwater guards and Iraqi security forces...
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At least 232 civilians have been  killed while working on U.S.-funded contracts in Iraq and the  death toll is rising rapidly, according to a U.S. government  audit released Sunday.
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U.S. security contractor Blackwater, under investigation in the shooting deaths of 11 Iraqis this month, came under criticism again on Thursday over an ambush in 2004 in which four of its staff were killed.
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Insurgents have mounted fresh attacks in Baghdad and a US-Lebanese contractor has become the latest victim of a kidnapping spree in the run-up to a threatened US assault on rebel-held Falluja and Ramadi.
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BAGHDAD, Sept. 22 -- Senior Iraqi officials repeatedly complained to U.S. officials about Blackwater USA's alleged involvement in the deaths of numerous Iraqis, but the Americans took little action to regulate the private security firm until 11 Iraqis were shot dead last Sunday, according to U.S....
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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.