Iraq will not renew the operating licence of US security firm Blackwater Worldwide because of a 2007 incident involving its guards in which civilians were killed in Baghdad, an official said Thursday.
“The contract is finished and will be not be renewed by order of the minister of the interior,” interior ministry spokesman Major General Abdel Karim Khalaf told AFP.
Blackwater, a major State Department contractor in Iraq, is being expelled over the deaths of the Iraqi civilians at a busy Baghdad intersection on September 16, 2007, in a case that infuriated Iraqis, Khalaf said.
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“It is because of the shooting incident in 2007,” he said.
An Iraqi investigation found that 17 civilians were killed and 20 injured in the incident, in which Blackwater guards opened fire while escorting an American diplomatic convoy through Baghdad. The firm says its guards were acting in self-defence.
January 29th, 2009 at 7:17 am
Oh great, now the Great Holy O will have to give them all jobs here in the US.
I hear the bearclaw logo on their ballcaps makes a great aimpoint.
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January 29th, 2009 at 11:32 am
Hee, Hee
January 29th, 2009 at 7:52 am
We should do the same thing here. Hired hitmen with imunity from all laws.
January 29th, 2009 at 9:19 am
WATCH …STAGED VIOLENCE WILL INCREASE
January 29th, 2009 at 11:35 am
Just in time for the FEMA camps to go online. Wanted: guards, torture chamber persons, rape room tyrants, acid pool and bath personel………you get the message.
January 29th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
Temp Paramilitary security personel needed, must have prior experience in public relations with extreme predjudice.
January 29th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
Blackwater operates world wide, so if 75,000 of them can’t work in Iraq I am pretty sure they can find contracts in other countries. The scary thing is they gonna be back home patrolling our streets. Those damn criminals will shoot you dead and the government wont do sh!T about it.
January 29th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
Blackwater got laid off? Join the crowd. Now you Blackwater goons can go back to your old job……being live crash dummy’s for AIG Auto Insurance Club.
January 29th, 2009 at 6:59 pm
Blackwater is only one of the many private protection contractors committing criminal acts
in Iraq and other countries. They also hire Ethiopian mercenaries that are nothing more than
blood thirsty killers that even kill our own military and set it up to look like suicide.
January 29th, 2009 at 7:33 pm
Well at least they had enough sense to get rid of them and the independant power to do so. It should happen more often.