回顧私有證券公司的法律地位的伊拉克

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伊拉克政府昨天宣佈了它將回顧運作在國家的所有私有安全承包商的法律地位由於取締美國公司Blackwater美國在平民殺害。

在星期天死亡人數從上升到11，與13受傷的射擊。 Blackwater拒绝道歉和聲稱那些射擊了，包括的婦女和孩子，是「武裝的叛亂者，并且我們的人員合法地和適當地行動了」。 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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