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May 10, 2008
Back in the News
Blackwater's security contract is up and running in Iraq despite last September's shooting that left at least 17 Iraqis dead at a Baghdad intersection:
The State Department has just renewed its contract to provide security for American diplomats in Iraq for at least another year. Threats by the Iraqi government to strip Western contractors of their immunity from Iraqi law have gone nowhere. No charges have been brought in the United States against any Blackwater guard in the September shooting, either, and the F.B.I. agents in Baghdad charged with investigating whether Blackwater guards have committed any crimes under United States law are sometimes protected as they travel through Baghdad by Blackwater guards.
So reports The New York Times.
Posted by davidphinney at May 10, 2008 02:01 PM
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