US contractors in Iraq shootout
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Officials investigate after at least eight Iraqi civilians are reported killed by US private contractors.
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Future of private contractors in doubt as US apologises over recent Baghdad killings.
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Iraq wants to tighten control over security contractors after a deadly shooting incident involving the U.S. firm Blackwater, ending their long immunity from Iraqi prosecution, the Interior Ministry said on Friday.
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Blackwater USA has been involved in a far higher rate of shootings in Iraq than other security firms providing similar services to the State Department, officials say.
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BAGHDAD -- Insurgents launched a fiery raid on a recently opened US outpost north of the capital yesterday morning, killing two US soldiers and injuring 17 troops in a possible foreshadowing of attacks to come as a neighborhood-based Baghdad security plan takes shape.
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The activities of security contractors are "in conflict" with the US mission in Iraq, says the US defence secretary.
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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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An Iraqi Islamist group beheaded an Iraqi contractor it said was working for US forces, a video on an Islamist Web site showed Saturday.
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Gunmen ambushed a bus full of Iraqis working for the US military, killing 17 civilians and wounding 13 in Tikrit on Sunday, while a car bomb and a gun attack killed four members
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Ten assailants sprayed gunfire at a minibus picking up a Turkish businessman from a Baghdad hotel Thursday, killing six Iraqis and kidnapping the Turk, who reportedly ran a construction company working with Americans.
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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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BAGHDAD, Sept. 17 -- A U.S. State Department motorcade came under attack in Baghdad on Sunday, prompting security contractors guarding the convoy to open fire in the streets. At least nine civilians were killed, according to Iraqi officials.
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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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A US helicopter gunship has fired at Iraqis milling around a burning US vehicle in a Baghdad street during fierce battles in which witnesses and officials say 13 people were killed and 61 wounded.
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In Baghdad, armed Blackwater USA guards, privately hired by the U.S. government, conducted a mission to protect State Department employees. Within minutes there was an explosion, gunfire, and bodies in the streets.
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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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Masked insurgent stands on a street in Mosul, Iraq Thursday Nov. 18, 2004. Insurgents fired mortars Thursday at the provincial administration offices in the northern city of Mosul, wounding four of the governor&#39;s guards, the US military said.