Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The contract in question is with a State Department-funded group called the ...
The State Department's chief of diplomatic security has resigned amid scrutiny of the use of private military contractors to guard the department's staff in Iraq, a spokesman said Wednesday. Richard ...
Iraq’s cabinet met Tuesday for roughly one hour and discussed the role of security companies in the wake of a violent incident in Baghdad Sunday when a U.S. convoy protected by Blackwater contractors ...
Members of the private security firm Blackwater escort U.S. administrator in Iraq Paul Bremer to a helicopter.Wathiq Khuzaie / EPA Blackwater’s killing of at least nine civilians in downtown Baghdad ...
U.S. Rep. Peter Welch emerged from the congressional hearing concerning the private security firm Blackwater USA on Oct. 2 with a clear opinion — the controversial company needs to leave Iraq ...
Nearly 50,000 private guards are employed in Iraq and Afghanistan to protect some 160,000 contractors. Nearly 1,000 Blackwater guards are contracted by the State Department to protect its staff, at a ...
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