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Blackwater 고용된 사람 상사에 새로운 면허를 부정하는 이라크
목요일, 2009년 1월 29
미국. 살해의 고소되는 대사관의 좋아한 계약자 Ernesto Londo의? o와 Qais Mizher, 워싱톤 포스트? 이라크 정부는 미국을 알렸다. Blackwater에 새로운 작동 면허를 세계전반 발행하지 않을 바그다드, 미국 외교관, 이라크인 및 미국을 보호하고 있는 동안 과량 힘을 사용하여 추정되게를 위한 면밀한 조사에 해당한 대사관의 1 차 경비 회사에 있는 대사관. 관리는 수요일을 말했다. 이라크의 실내 내각은 미국에 그것의 결정을 전했다. 대담한 행동의 한에서 금요일에 바그다드에 있는 관리는, 1월부터 정부 만들었다. 예리하게 이라크에 있는 미국 힘을 재갈을 물린 미국을 가진 안전 협정의 1개의 실시. 부적당한 행위의 고소되지 않은 Blackwater 직원은 고용주를 전환하는 경우에, 이라크 관리 말했다 수요일을 이라크에 있는 개인 안전 계약자로 일 계속되 허용될 것이다. 관리는 Blackwater가 합동 이라크 미국 국가를 떠나야 한ㄴ다는 것을 말했다. 위원회는 안전 협정의 밑에 사설 계약인을 위한 지침서를 작성하는 끝낸다. 그것은 저것이 얼마나 가지고 갈지 불분명하다. Blackwater 직원과 다른 미국. 계약자는 이라크 법률의 밑에 실행에서 면역성이 있었었다. "이 위원회의 일이 끝낼 때," 실내 내각 대변인 메이저. Gen. Abdul-Karim Khalaf는 밝혔다, 개인 경비 회사는 "이라크 정부의 지배하에 이고, 면허가 Blackwater와 같은 없는 그 회사는 이라크를 즉시 떠나야 한다." 국무성은 이라크 법률이 그것의 계약자에 의하여 순종할 수요일을 밝혔다. "우리는 이라크의 정부를 사용하고 대사관 바그다드 인원의 안전과 보안에 대한 어떤 충격든지 극소화하는 방법에 있는 이 결정의 연루를 제시하는 우리의 계약자는," 대변인 Noel 찰흙 말했다. 그녀가 이라크 정부의 결정과에 대해 인식하고 있 Blackwater 여성 대변인 Anne Tyrrell는 말했다. "그것은 전자 우편 수요일에서 도달되지 않을지도 모르는 결정에 대하여 논평하기 위하여 저를 위해 책임이 없을 것입니다," 그녀 말했다. 미국은 이라크 연합국의 만료 지나서 그것의 계약자의 면제를 확장하기 위하여 정부를 설득할 수 없습니다. 12월에 안전 이사회 결의. 31. 미국 외교관은 Blackwater가 확보한 임무 동안에 죽지 않았다. The North Carolina company became widely despised by Iraqis after a string of incidents during which its heavily armed guards were accused of using excessive force. The deadliest was the Sept. 16, 2007, shooting in Nisoor Square, in central Baghdad, when Blackwater guards opened fire on Iraqis in a crowded street, killing 17 civilians, after the guards’ convoy reportedly came under fire. The U.S. attorney’s office in Washington last month charged five of the men with voluntary manslaughter and using a machine gun to commit a violent act. The men entered not guilty pleas and are awaiting trial. A sixth guard reached a plea deal with prosecutors. Private security companies working for the U.S. government in Iraq have been required to obtain licenses from the Iraqi Interior Ministry since 2004, but some have operated without licenses, and until this year, there was little the Iraqi government could do to enforce the rule. The ministry revoked Blackwater’s license in September 2007 and threatened to expel the company’s employees, but U.S. officials ignored the order and renewed the company’s contract the following April. Iraqi officials said Wednesday they decided not to issue the company a new license largely because of the Nisoor Square shooting. “We informed the U.S. Embassy in Iraq about this decision, and they will have to find another company to replace them,” said Gen. Hussain Kamal, a senior Interior Ministry official. Blackwater employees were also accused of shooting Iraqi guards working for a television station in the spring of 2007. And on Dec. 24, 2006, a drunk Blackwater guard fatally shot a guard employed by Iraqi Vice President Adel Abdul Mahdi. According to a congressional report issued in October 2007, Blackwater guards have been involved in nearly 200 shootings in Iraq since 2005. The company has received more than $1 billion from the federal government since 2000. In recent months, however, Blackwater has expanded its business model to rely less heavily on private security work overseas. Though tremendously profitable, the field has generated an avalanche of bad publicity for the company and exposed it to numerous lawsuits. The two other large security companies that protect American diplomats in Iraq are DynCorp International and Triple Canopy, both based in Northern Virginia. Blackwater employees work under the supervision of the embassy’s regional security officer. The company’s drivers and bodyguards take U.S. diplomats to meetings outside the Green Zone, and its pilots often fly in small helicopters over convoys as an added security measure. The Blackwater employees live in a compound in the Green Zone that is informally referred to as “man camp.” According to the October 2007 congressional report, Blackwater guards made more than $1,200 per day. Private security contractors in Iraq last year became deeply concerned about losing their immunity with the implementation of the security agreement, which U.S. officials feared would trigger a mass exodus. But few have left. Instead, in recent months, Western private security companies have sought to build strong relationships with the Iraqi government and have hired more Iraqi guards. Sami Hawa Hamud al-Sabahin, who was among those wounded in the Nisoor Square shooting, said he was overjoyed to hear the news about Blackwater. “It makes me happy and lets me feel that the government didn’t forget us,” he said. Umm Tahsin , the widow of Ali Khalil Abdul Hussein, one of the men killed in the shooting, also applauded the government’s decision. But she lamented that neither the Iraqi nor the U.S. government has compensated her family for their loss. “Those people are a group of criminals,” she said of Blackwater. “What they did was a massacre. Pushing them out is the best solution. They destroyed our family.” Have Your Say: Iraq to Deny New License To Blackwater Mercenary Firm Please read our posting guidelines before posting. Alternatively you can discuss this report here. Related News
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