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Topic started on 6-7-2008 @ 06:49 PM by SystemiK

Blackwater's legal protections might end


www.upi.com
WASHINGTON, July 6 (UPI) -- Blackwater Worldwide, the private U.S. security contractor guarding diplomats in Baghdad, may no longer have immunity from Iraqi courts, sources say.

The U.S. State Department has agreed to stop protecting employees of Blackwater and other American contractors in Iraq from prosecution in Iraqi courts, The (Norfolk) Virginian-Pilot reported Sunday. The State Department said little about the agreement.

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reply posted on 7-7-2008 @ 02:32 AM by bg_socalif
reply to post by SystemiK



That's the new agreement in the works. They'll let us contractors fall under Iraqi law, not just security folks, all contractors. Iraq originally wanted the US military to fall under Iraqi law as well, but the US wouldn't budge on that.
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