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Walter Pincus reports for The Washington Post: "It costs the US government a lot more to hire contract employees as security guards in Iraq than to use American troops. It comes down to the simple business equation of every transaction requiring a profit."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100107C.shtml



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Kevin Peraino reports for Newsweek: "Since the fatal Sept. 16 Blackwater USA shooting in Baghdad's Nasoor Square, officials from the private security company have insisted that their guards were responding to fire from 'armed enemies.' Yet an extensive evidence file put together by the Iraqi National Police and obtained by NEWSWEEK - including documents, maps, sworn witness statements and police video footage - appears to contradict the contractors' version of events."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100107A.shtml



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Sudarsan Raghavan and Karen DeYoung of The Washington Post report that five "eyewitnesses to a September 16 shooting incident in Baghdad involving the private security firm Blackwater USA insisted that company guards fired without provocation, forcing civilians and Iraqi police to run for cover, and that the Iraqi officers did not return fire."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/093007Y.shtml



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USA: Eine Abstimmung im Senat zur Aufteilung des Irak und warum von Bushs Nachfolgern keine bessere Irak-Politik zu erwarten ist.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26304/1.html

The Senate agreed on Thursday to increase the federal debt limit by $850 billion -- from $8.965 trillion to $9.815 trillion -- and then proceeded to approve a stop-gap spending bill that gives the Bush White House at least $9 billion in new funding for its war in Iraq.

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat?pid=237751



Iraq: We'll Negotiate Long-Term Presence

Officials said Iraq would seek a long-term, bilateral security agreement with the United States like the ones Washington has with Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, Bahrain, Qatar and Egypt.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/09/29/iraq/main3311545.shtml


From Information Clearing House

It is the first time the Bush Administration had made such data public and comes as Blackwater - the State Department's prime security force - faces new scrutiny for its role this month in the killing of up to 11 Iraqis.

http://snipurl.com/1rke3


From Information Clearing House



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Seven men were killed, Sayyid Malik Abadi, the head of the district security committee, who arrived at the scene shortly after the episode, said Friday. He said perhaps an eighth man had died as well, but too many body parts were scattered about to be certain exactly how many were killed.

http://snipurl.com/1rke2


From Information Clearing House

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18477.htm



Death From All Sides

An extensive evidence file assembled by the Iraqi National Police after the controversial Blackwater shooting suggests that the private contractors opened fire unprovoked from the ground and the sky.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21064094/site/newsweek/?from=rss


From Information Clearing House



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Alexandra Zavis reported in the Los Angeles Times that General David Petraeus admitted that violence in Iraq has increased, contradicting his testimony before Congress earlier this month when he said that attacks between Sunni and Shiite factions fell dramatically since George W. Bush sent an additional 30,000 US troops into Iraq earlier this year.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/093007Z.shtml



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In an editorial in Friday's New York Times, the newspaper questioned why President Bush needs $190 billion to continue funding the war in Iraq "if, as he says...,[he] is going to start withdrawing troops from Iraq?"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092907Y.shtml