Iraq to review security firms after shooting
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Iraq will review the status of all security companies after this week's "flagrant assault" by contractors from the U.S. firm Blackwater in which 11 people were shot dead, the government said on Tuesday.
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BAGHDAD, Oct. 18 -- Two men and a woman were wounded Thursday in a quiet Kurdish village in northern Iraq when guards from a British security company raked a crowded taxi with automatic weapons fire, local police said. It was the third shooting of Iraqi civilians by a private security firm in less...
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US forces stepped up security measures at bases across Iraq on Thursday after concluding that a suicide bomber, probably in Iraqi military uniform, was behind Tuesday&#39;s blast at a military base in Mosul.
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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 b...
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With the Iraq government urging that the security firm be fired, the question is how  U.S. diplomats can be protected
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Iraq ordered an investigation on Monday  into whether a security breach triggered a massacre of 49 army  recruits, while 12 Iraqis and two foreign soldiers, an Estonian  and an American, were killed in fresh violence.
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BAGHDAD -- Private security companies, funded by billions of dollars in US military and State Department contracts, are fighting insurgents on a widening scale in Iraq, enduring daily attacks, returning fire, and taking hundreds of casualties that have been underreported and sometimes concealed, according to US and Iraqi officials and company representatives.
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BAGHDAD, Sept. 2 -- Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Sunday ordered a "professional and neutral" investigation into the cause of the violence that killed more than 50 people at a religious festival last week.
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The killing of 17 Iraqis by Blackwater contractors puts the spotlight on private security companies. Who are these guns for hire, and who pays when they mess up?
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Employees of Blackwater USA, a private security firm under contract to the State Department, opened fire on the streets of Baghdad twice in two days last week, and one of the incidents provoked a standoff between the security contractors and Iraqi forces, U.S. and Iraqi officials said.
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KIRKUK, Iraq  - Thousands of Iraqi police and soldiers launched a major security crackdown in the restive Iraqi oil city of Kirkuk on Saturday, searching homes for weapons after all residents were ordered off the streets.
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The State Department is looking into an incident in which one of its security contractors killed a dog at The New York Times's offices in Baghdad during a precautionary sweep of the compound for explosives.
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WASHINGTON - The State Department moved quickly yesterday to tamp down anger and possible repercussions after the alleged killing of eight Iraqi civilians by a private security firm hired to protect US diplomats in Iraq.
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BAGHDAD - The Iraqi government expects to refer criminal charges to the Iraqi courts within days in a shooting by a private American security company, the state minister for national security affairs said yesterday.
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Gunmen killed four people in central Baghdad on Sunday, police said, and officials from the organization running Iraq&#39;s national elections are investigating whether any of their employees were among the victims.
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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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Reuters on Monday asked the U.S. military to conduct a full and objective investigation into the killing last week of two of its staff in Iraq after evidence emerged casting doubt on explanations given for their deaths.