Iraq Blackwater

The Harrowing Images Of The War In Iraq

AP | HADI MIZBAN and KARIM KADIM and KHALID MOHAMMED | Posted 02.02.2012

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BAGHDAD — Burned bodies hanging from a bridge. A boy buried under rubble from a bombing. A father gunned down in front of his 7-year-old daughte...

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Iraq Orders Ex-Blackwater Security Guards To Leave

AP | QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 05.25.2011

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BAGHDAD — Iraq has ordered hundreds of private security guards linked to Blackwater Worldwide to leave the country within seven days or face pos...

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Iraq Outraged As Blackwater Case Thrown Out

AP | REBECCA SANTANA | Posted 05.25.2011

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BAGHDAD — Iraqis seeking justice for 17 people shot dead at a Baghdad intersection responded with bitterness and outrage Friday at a U.S. judge'...

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Iraq Will Sue Blackwater Guards

CNN | Posted 05.25.2011

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Iraq said Friday that it will file a lawsuit against five Blackwater security guards cleared of manslaughter charges in the 2007 killing of 17 Iraqi c...

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Blackwater Contractor Saw Killing Iraqis As 9/11 Payback: Justice Dept

Mother Jones | Daniel Schulman | Posted 05.25.2011

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One member of the Blackwater security team known as Raven 23 regularly bragged about his body count and viewed killing Iraqis as "payback for 9/11." ...

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US Extends Iraq Contract For Blackwater Firm

AP | MATTHEW LEE | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The State Department said Wednesday it has extended a contract for protecting U.S. diplomats in Iraq with a subsidiary of the secur...

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Blackwater Iraq Contract Expires; Operations Will Continue Temporarily

AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 05.25.2011

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BAGHDAD — The American security firm once known as Blackwater ended its operations in the diplomatic hub of Baghdad on Thursday, bringing to a c...

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Blackwater Continues Iraq Operations Without License

AP | MATTHEW LEE and MIKE BAKER | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Armed guards from the security firm once known as Blackwater Worldwide are still protecting U.S. diplomats in Iraq, even though the...

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Blackwater Sheds Tarnished Name: New Name Is 'Xe'

AP | MIKE BAKER | Posted 05.25.2011

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RALEIGH, N.C. — Blackwater Worldwide is still protecting U.S. diplomats in Iraq, but executives at the beleaguered security firm are taking thei...

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Blackwater In Iraq: Won't Be Allowed To Work There

AP | BRIAN MURPHY | Posted 05.25.2011

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BAGHDAD — Gunmen apparently targeting political candidates staged attacks around Iraq on Thursday, leaving at least three people dead as Iraqi f...

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2005 Use of Riot Gas by Blackwater Leaves Questions

NY Times | James Risen | Posted 05.25.2011

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The helicopter was hovering over a Baghdad checkpoint into the Green Zone, one typically crowded with cars, Iraqi civilians and United States military...

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Calif. City Planners Set To Lose Posts For Backing Blackwater Camp

New York Times | SOLOMON MOORE | Posted 05.25.2011

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The scandal in Iraq involving Blackwater, the private security firm, is a world away from this tiny town near the Mexican border. But five members of ...

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State Department Official Removes Himself From Blackwater Investigation

Seattle Times | Warren P. Strobel | Posted 05.25.2011

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The State Department's embattled inspector general suddenly removed himself Wednesday from investigations into security contractor Blackwater Worldwid...

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Iraqi Investigators Say Blackwater Guards Fired Unprovoked

Associated Press | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 05.25.2011

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Iraqi investigators have a videotape that shows Blackwater USA guards opened fire against civilians without provocation in an incident last week in wh...

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Iraq Expands Blackwater Investigation

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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Iraq's Interior Ministry has expanded its investigation into incidents involving Blackwater USA security guards amid the furor following a shooting th...

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