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Iraq announced on Monday it had withdrawn the license of a U.S. security firm and would prosecute employees it said were involved in a Baghdad shooting in which 11 people were killed.
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Iraq says it will review the status of all private security companies after a deadly gunfight involving a US firm.
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The Iraqi governmentâs authority to bar Blackwater USA, a security company that was involved in the deaths of eight Iraqis, appeared to be in question.
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Iraqi and British forces in southern Iraq closed border crossings with Iran on Thursday in an attempt to choke off smuggling networks that Washington says are used to supply militant groups.
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Iraq's Interior Ministry has finished draft legislation that would end legal immunity enjoyed by private security contractors in the wake of a deadly shooting involving U.S. firm Blackwater, an official said on Tuesday.
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Blackwater USA, the private security company involved in a Baghdad shootout last weekend, operated under State Department authority that exempted the company from U.S. military regulations governing other security firms, according to U.S. and Iraqi officials and industry representatives.
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Iraq pledged on Monday to punish foreign security contractors involved in an incident in western Baghdad in which 11 people were killed.
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WASHINGTON - The Pentagon has hastily reversed a decision to partially withhold payments to Halliburton, the biggest US contractor in Iraq.
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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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The United States formally handed over   control of Iraq's new military to Prime Minister Nuri   al-Maliki's government on Thursday just as rebels unleashed a   fresh wave of deadly bomb attacks on Iraqi security forces.
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An international construction company has pulled out of its contract to rebuild Iraq's transportation systems, deciding it was too dangerous to stay, a spokesman for the U.S.-led reconstruction effort said Wednesday.
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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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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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Iraq's cabinet approved a draft law on Tuesday that would end the immunity from prosecution of foreign security contractors by scrapping a decree that Iraqis have complained amounts to a "license to kill".
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The United States has barred diplomats and civilians from leaving Baghdad's heavily fortified "Green Zone" after a shooting involving the Blackwater security firm that drew protests from Iraq and prompted investigations, a U.S. official said on Tuesday.
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Turkish company Vinsan Inc. suspended its operations in Iraq in accordance with the demands of the Tawhid and Jihad militants who had kidnapped 10 of the company&#39;s Turkish employees.
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BAGHDAD, Sept. 18 -- The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday suspended all ground travel for its diplomats across Iraq following a deadly shootout over the weekend involving its private security guards from Blackwater USA.