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否认新的执照的伊拉克对Blackwater佣工企业
星期四， 2009年1月29日
美国. 使馆的首选的承包商被指责杀害 由Ernesto · Londo ？o和Qais Mizher， 华盛顿邮报? 伊拉克政府通知了美国。 使馆在巴格达它不会发布一个新的经营的执照对Blackwater全世界，使馆的主要证券公司，受到察视为涉嫌使用过份力量，当保护美国外交官、伊拉克人和美国时。 官员认为星期三。 伊拉克的内部部表达了它的决定对美国。 在星期五官员在巴格达，在其中一个大胆举措中政府从1月做了。 一个担保协议的1实施与在伊拉克尖锐遏制美国力量的美国的。 未被指责不正当的品行的Blackwater雇员在伊拉克将允许持续工作作为私有安全承包商，如果他们交换雇主，伊拉克官员说星期三。 官员认为Blackwater必须离开国家，当联接伊拉克美国。 委员会完成草拟指南为私人承包商根据担保协议。 它是不明的那多久将采取。 Blackwater雇员和其他美国。 承包商从起诉是免疫的根据伊拉克法律。 “当这个委员会工作结束”，内部部发言人少校。 Gen. Abdul-Karim Khalaf说，私有证券公司“将是在伊拉克政府特许之下，并且没有执照，例如Blackwater的那些公司，应该立刻离开伊拉克”。 国务院认为星期三它的承包商将服从伊拉克法律。 “我们与伊拉克的政府一起使用，并且我们的演讲这个决定的涵义的承包商用使对使馆巴格达人员安全保卫的所有冲击减到最小的方法”，发言人Noel黏土说。 Blackwater女发言人Anne Tyrrell说她不知道伊拉克政府的决定。 “它是不负责任的为了我能评论对可能或不可能做出了的决定”，她说在电子邮件星期三。 美国无法说服伊拉克政府扩大它的承包商免疫通过联合国的失效。 安全理事会决议在12月。 31. 美国外交官未被杀害在Blackwater获取的使命期间。 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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