Iraq Bans Security Contractor (Blackwater)

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/17/AR2007091700238.html


The Iraqi government on Monday said it had revoked the license of Blackwater USA, an American security company involved in a shootout in Baghdad that killed at least nine people, raising questions over which nation should regulate tens of thousands of civilian hired guns operating in Iraq.

The Iraqi government's announcement was its most public assertion to date of its right to take action against foreign security companies when a suspected crime has been committed.

Several violent episodes involving Blackwater have infuriated Iraqi officials. An Interior Ministry spokesman, Brig. Gen. Abdul-Karim Khalaf, said the decision meant Blackwater "cannot work in Iraq any longer."

"Blackwater has made many mistakes resulting in other deaths, but this is the last and the biggest mistake. This is unjustified," Khalaf said. "Security contracts do not allow them to shoot people randomly. They are here to protect personnel, not shoot people without reason."
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Blackwater should be banned world wide

[PufPuf23]

1. There should be a law that out govt/military cannot use

mercenaries.

Blackwater and the like undercut the regular military.

There is so much wrong in using mercenaries.

[madokie]

2. Are you even sure its legal now, I'm not?

[kirby]

3. In other news, Blackwater renames itself Whitewater n/t

[flobee]

5. With all the $$$$$ that goes to blackwater

just think what it could do for our troops and veterans

[chrisa]

4. Excellent news. n/t

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. The 3rd largest foreign force in Iraq is contractors.

I read this last week..sorry, no source springs to mind..it was about Blackwater being banned, tho.
Behind American and British military, contractors make up the largest group of occupiers, and as we soon found out, groups such as Blackwater actually perform military duties.

Hooray for Iraq standing up to them.