개인 경비 회사의 법적 지위를 검토하는 이라크

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이라크 정부는 민간인의 살해에 미국 회사 Blackwater 미국의 금지의 결과로서 국가에서 작동하는 모든 개인 안전 계약자의 법적 지위를 검토할 것이라는 점을 어제 알렸다.

상처를 입은 일요일에 총격사건에서 사망자 수는 13와 더불어 11, 상승했다. Blackwater는 포함하는 여자 및 아이들 그들이 쐈다는 것을 주장해, 이었다 "무장한 폭도 사과하는 것을 사절하고 우리의 인원은" 합법적으로 그리고 적합하게 행동했다. It has also been claimed that as well as shooting at civilians, the Blackwater guards exchanged fire with Iraqi police and soldiers.

The US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, called the Iraqi Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, to offer condolences for the deaths and promised a through investigation into what happened. Blackwater had been contracted to provide security to many US officials in Baghdad, including the ambassador.

The radical Shia cleric, Muqtada al-Sadr, said yesterday: “This aggression wouldn’t have happened had it not been for the presence of the occupiers who brought these companies. Cancel this company’s work, and the rest of the criminal and intelligence companies.”

An Iraqi government spokesman, Ali al-Dabbagh, said the cabinet “was meeting to review the operations of foreign and local security companies in Iraq”.

Brigadier General Abdul Kareem Khalaf, of the Interior Ministry, said: “Blackwater committed a crime. They carried out a flagrant assault. The judicial system will now take action”.

It remains unclear, however, what legal “action” can be taken. Private military companies were granted immunity from Iraqi prosecution under order number 17 of the Coalition Provisional Authority.

Mowaffak Rubaie, the country’s national security advisor, said: “This is a golden opportunity for the government of Iraq to radically review the order.”

There was more violence in Baghdad yesterday as four car bombs in Baghdad killed 21 people. Some of the victims were at the morgue waiting to collect the bodies of relations who had died in Sunday’s shooting.

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