A legal danger zone for Blackwater
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The contractor and other US firms working in Iraq could be subject to prosecution from several quarters.
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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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By JEREMY WARNER  Tricky stuff, these media ownership rules, as well as politically very dangerous territory.
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BAGHDAD, Oct. 24 -- The U.S. Embassy on Wednesday began offering tens of thousands of dollars in payments to the victims of the Sept. 16 shootings in Baghdad involving Blackwater Worldwide security guards, according to relatives and U.S. officials.
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Iraqâs government has revoked the license of Blackwater USA after shots fired from a convoy killed eight Iraqis.
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Federal prosecutors are investigating whether employees of the private security firm Blackwater USA illegally smuggled into Iraq weapons that may have been sold on the black market and ended up in the hands of a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, officials said Friday.
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The government has many tools at its disposal to poke around in your business in search of criminal behavior. You have basically only one weapon in your defense - The Bill of Rights.
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The private security firm Blackwater USA brushed aside warnings from another security firm and focused on cost, not safety, before it sent its personnel to escort trucks to Fallujah in 2004, resulting in four American deaths that marked a major turning point in the war, a congressional report sai...
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The U.S. government disregarded numerous warnings over the past two years about the risks of using Blackwater Worldwide and other private security firms in Iraq, expanding their presence even after a series of shooting incidents showed that the firms were operating with little regulation or...
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The pitfalls of the governmentâs use of informants with questionable backgrounds are illustrated by the case of an Afghan drug lord and Taliban ally.
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The administration should bring its policies on prisoners in the war on terror into compliance with the Geneva Conventions. A prosecution before the first American military commission since World War II was
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A major gunfight has sparked rage and debate over Blackwater's role.
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BLACKWATER NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, Md. --  Third in a monthly series
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Blackwater USA triggered a major battle in the Iraq war in 2004 by sending an unprepared team of guards into an insurgent stronghold, a move that led to their horrific deaths and a violent response by U.S. forces, says a congressional investigation
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A new contract proposal put forward last week by the Joint Contracting Command-Iraq shows that the U.S. military believes there is going to be a continuing need for private, armed, security services such as Blackwater USA in that country for years to come.
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Denying lay-bys the use of law enforcement In a bizarre follow-up to its 'Denying Criminals the Use of the Roads' strategy, the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) has announced an initiative that might perhaps be called, 'Assigning Criminals the Leasehold of the Lay-bys.' Things have come to a pretty pass, as crusty old Tory MPs might once have complained, when there are no-go areas for Britain's law-abiding citizens, but that indeed seems to be the message of "Truckers Beware."â¦
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Federal prosecutors are investigating whether employees of Blackwater USA illegally smuggled into Iraq weapons that may have been sold on the black market.