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Iraq para negar a licença nova à empresa do Mercenary de Blackwater
Quinta-feira, janeiro 29o, 2009
ESTADOS UNIDOS. Contratante preferido do Embassy acusado das matanças Por Ernesto Londo? o e Qais Mizher, Borne de Washington? O governo Iraqi informou os ESTADOS UNIDOS. Embassy em Bagdade que não emitirá uma licença se operando nova a Blackwater Worldwide, companhia de segurança preliminar do embassy, que veio sob o scrutiny para alegada usar a força excessiva ao proteger diplomatas, o Iraqi e ESTADOS UNIDOS americanos. oficiais quarta-feira dita. O Ministry Interior de Iraq fêz saber a sua decisão a ESTADOS UNIDOS. os oficiais em Bagdade em sexta-feira, em um dos movimentos os mais bold(realce) o governo fizeram desde o janeiro. 1 execução de um acordo de segurança com os Estados Unidos que curbed agudamente o poder americano em Iraq. Serão permitidos aos empregados de Blackwater que não foram acusados da conduta imprópria continuar trabalhando como contratantes confidenciais em Iraq se comutarem empregadores, oficiais Iraqi da segurança ditos quarta-feira. O Blackwater dito oficiais deve sair do país assim que uma junção Iraqi-U.S. o comitê termina redigir guidelines para contratantes confidenciais sob o acordo de segurança. É unclear quanto tempo aquele fará exame. Empregados de Blackwater e outros ESTADOS UNIDOS. os contratantes tinham sido imunes do prosecution sob a lei Iraqi. “Quando o trabalho deste comitê terminar,” major Interior do spokesman do Ministry. Gerador. Abdul-Karim Khalaf dito, companhias de segurança confidenciais “estará sob a autoridade do governo Iraqi, e aquelas companhias que não têm licenças, tais como Blackwater, devem sair de Iraq imediatamente.” O departamento do estado disse quarta-feira que seus contratantes obedecerão a lei Iraqi. “Nós trabalharemos com o governo de Iraq e de nossos contratantes para dirigir-se às implicações desta decisão em uma maneira que minimize todo o impacto na segurança e na segurança do pessoal de Bagdade do embassy,” argila de Noel do spokesman dita. O spokeswoman Anne Tyrrell de Blackwater disse que não estava ciente da decisão do governo Iraqi. “Seria irresponsible para que eu comente em uma decisão que pudesse ou não pudesse ter sido alcançada,” ela disse em um E-mail quarta-feira. Os Estados Unidos eram incapazes de persuadir o governo Iraqi para estender o immunity de seus contratantes após a expiração do U.N. Definição do conselho de segurança em dezembro. 31. Nenhum diplomata americano foi matado durante as missões fixadas por Blackwater. 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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