Blackwater Focused on Cost, Not Safety, Report Says
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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 said...
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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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In a 2004 e-mail, a Blackwater USA manager warned his bosses that he lacked proper equipment for his security men in Iraq. "Guys are in the field with borrowed stuff and in harm's way," the manager said. A day later, four Blackwater employees were ambushed and slain in Falluja, with two of them left hanging from a bridge. A House panel now is examining the use of private contractors in Iraq.
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The Small Business Administration said yesterday that its ruling that Blackwater Worldwide's workers are independent contractors instead of company employees should have no bearing on the security contractor's tax liability.
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WASHINGTON - Heavier guns and sturdier trucks would not have saved a team of Blackwater USA guards brutally killed in March 2004 after being lured by corrupt Iraqi forces into a well-planned ambush, the embattled private security contractor contends in a report to Congress.
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The hundreds of billions of dollars and thousands of lives expended in the name of the war on terror pose a single, insistent question: Are we safer? Perhaps not.
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Prosecutors look into whether staff at the US security firm Blackwater smuggled weapons to Iraq, say reports.
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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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Financial losses caused by   terrorists using nuclear, biological, chemical or radiological   weapons are not insurable, and it's unlikely the private market   would ever expand to cover them, a report by the U.S.   Government Accountability Office said on Tuesday.
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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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US security company Blackwater denies allegations that its staff smuggled weapons into Iraq.
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Blackwaterâs roughneck logo has undergone a publicity-conscious, corporate scrubbing.
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The deaths of three Black Watch soldiers in the treacherous US-controlled sector of central Iraq may have confirmed the worst fears about the regimentâs move, but it should not
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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 overs...
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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.
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Iraq wants to tighten control over security contractors after a deadly shooting involving the US firm Blackwater, ending their long immunity from Iraqi prosecution, the Interior Ministry said yesterday.
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The Iraq war may not dominate U.S. news reports as the carnage drops, but a new report underscores the financial burden of persistent combat that is helping run up the government's credit card.