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donsu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-21-07 11:39 AM
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Iraq's Min. of Interior said more then ' withdraw license from Blackwater'
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/21/world/middleeast/21blackwater.html?_r=2&hp=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1190343491-PsdlDaYTJNS0HgrPfpgksA&oref=slogin


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The document concludes that the dozens of foreign security companies here should be replaced by Iraqi companies, and that a law that has given the companies immunity for years be scrapped.

Four days after the shooting, American officials said they were still preparing their own forensic analysis of what happened in Nisour Square. They have repeatedly declined to give any details before their work is finished.

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“The Blackwater company is considered 100 percent guilty through this investigation,” the report concludes.

The shooting enraged Iraqis, in part because they feel powerless to bring the security companies to account.

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Another of the report’s recommendations is for the company to pay compensation to the families of the dead.

Perhaps the part that will bring the most debate is the recommendation to limit foreign security companies.

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But even if the government succeeds in changing the rules, it will have difficulty enforcing them. Four private security companies, all Iraqi, have been prohibited from working in past years, but all of them continued operating by changing their names, according to a former security contractor.

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Blackwater had been operating without a license for more than a year, though it had made an attempt to register this spring. Mr. Bolani said that the government was not moving forward with its registration, but that not being registered would not set the company apart from many other foreign security companies operating here. Only 23 foreign companies have licenses, Mr. Bolani said.
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interesting facts left out of most reporting
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