Security Firms in Iraq Face New Rules
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Private security contractors will continue to protect U.S. diplomats in Iraq but will operate under closer supervision by U.S. Embassy officials and with clearer accountability for their actions, according to new rules approved yesterday by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
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The plan calls for Iraqi troops to assume the primary responsibility for security in Baghdad early next year.
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The Iraqi government said Tuesday it would review the status of private security companies as anger over the alleged involvement of Blackwater USA in a fatal shooting
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Iraq announced on Monday it had withdrawn the license of a U.S. security firm and would prosecute employees it said were involved in a shooting in Baghdad in which 11 people were killed.
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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said yesterday that the mission of private security contractors guarding individuals in Iraq is fundamentally at odds with the broader U.S. military objective of stabilizing Iraq, and that changes would be required to reconcile them.
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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 Pentagon has added new procedures to ensure that senior officials seeking employment in industry abide by the rules governing post-government work.
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Iraq will review the status of all security companies working in the country after a shooting incident involving guards from the U.S. firm Blackwater, the government said on Tuesday.
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The Department of Homeland Security today proposed new rules that would more tightly regulate freight trains carrying hazardous chemicals that could be used in terrorist attacks.
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The British government is responding to a request from Baghdad to regulate thousands of private security workers that are flowing from the United Kingdom into Iraq and Afghanistan to work for British firms.
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Pressure is rising to establish an Iraqi military capable of securing the country by January elections.
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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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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice orders increased oversight of private security firms in Iraq.
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Â· US guards start work after civilian deaths Â· Iraq to end immunity for security firms
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ABERDEEN, Maryland  - New armored vehicles that give extra protection to U.S. troops in Iraq are becoming symbolic targets for insurgents, the top military officer in charge of acquiring the vehicles said on Friday.
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Extra security measures are being introduced in Iraq ahead of Sunday's election - the first since the invasion.
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A report by an independent commission says that it will be at least 12 to 18 months before Iraqâs army and police can take charge of the countryâs security.