Iraq says security contractor Blackwater must go
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Iraq put more pressure on the United States on Thursday to pull out security contractor Blackwater from Baghdad but the State Department said no decision had been made on the North Carolina firm.
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The Iraqi government announced Monday it was ordering Blackwater USA, the security firm that protects U.S. diplomats, to leave the country after what it said was the fatal shooting of eight Iraqi civilians following a car bomb attack against a State Department convoy.
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&#39;Just say no.&#39; That was the Guardian&#39;s considered advice to the UK government over the redeployment of British Black Watch troops from Basra to central Iraq to take the place of Americans who have to go off and fight insurgents.
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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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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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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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Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Thursday criticized security contractors in Iraq as Baghdad piled more pressure on the State Department to pull the Blackwater firm out of Iraq after deadly shootings last month.
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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 former member of the Black Watch believes the regiment is ready for its move to a more hostile area of Iraq. On Wednesday, more than 800 soldiers from the battalion began moving out of Basra towards an area south of Baghdad.
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A senior Iraqi official has urged aid agencies in the country not to leave following the kidnap of Care International director Margaret Hassan.
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Iraq said on Monday no action would be taken against U.S. private security firm Blackwater over a shooting in which 11 people were killed until after a joint investigation with U.S. officials.
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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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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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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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U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Thursday criticized security contractors in Iraq as Baghdad piled more pressure on the State Department to pull the Blackwater firm out of Iraq after deadly shootings last month.
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Sentiment is growing in the Bush Administration to end the legal protections that contractors like Blackwater have in Iraq
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US-backed mainly Sunni patrols must be integrated into the security forces, Iraq's defence minister warns.