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Tue. December 02, 2008

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No such immunity is extended to private security contractors, over whom the agreement grants Iraq the "primary right to exercise jurisdiction". ...
After McClatchy began asking questions about the men on Tuesday, the Kuwaiti contractor announced that it would return them to their home countries and pay ...
American forces in Iraq have relied far too heavily on private security contractors who have operated with no real legal accountability. ...
The next phase of the Iraq war will be under terms set by the Iraqi government, including an end to immunity from Iraqi law for private American contractors ...

After McClatchy began asking questions about the men on Tuesday, the Kuwaiti contractor announced that it would return them to their home countries and pay ...
It appealed to the United States to "investigate reports of deaths caused by privately hired contractors ... and strengthen effective mechanisms for holding ...
In September, Gates terminated the second refueler competition before it began, citing a need for a cooling off period between the contractors and the ...
By Joe Sterling (CNN) -- the US-led coalition in Iraq is swiftly dwindling as security and stability return to the country, and by January only the United ...
... firm in New York that has grown into a defense industry powerhouse by buying contractors whose profits soared from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. ...
It called on the United States to 'investigate reports of deaths caused by privately hired contractors ... and strengthen effective mechanisms for holding ...
First, the agreement should state honestly that American combat troops would remain in Iraq until 2012. Using the December 31, 2011 date as the deadline is ...
There are no published statistics about the deaths or injuries of the private army soldiers (security contractors), or about those without US citizenship. ...
And Iraq's government is pushing for more authority to prosecute US contractors in its own courts. Last month it was revealed that federal prosecutors had ...
"When Senator Obama launched his campaign, much of his appeal to voters in the primaries was his initial opposition to the invasion of Iraq during his time ...
The story of the life and death of Jonathon Coté puts a very human face on the shift in how contractors have been used in the Iraq war. ...
The case for Gates goes beyond the obvious question of assisting the next president in handling Iraq, which Gates has helped haul back from the brink of ...
In what may have been an effort to disrupt election preparations, a rocket hit inside Baghdad's International Zone Saturday, killing two contractors and ...
In June of that year, he applied to become a translator for American forces in Iraq. On a form asking whether he had ever had any contact with any foreign ...
contractors bungling the occupation of Iraq; contractors spinning the revolving door at the Department of Homeland Security; contractors reveling publicly ...
1, at 2 pm ET to discuss his book, "Big Boy Rules: America's Mercenaries Fighting in Iraq," which tells the stories of private security contractors in the ...
But here's the interesting part: the agreement also makes thousands of US contractors subject to Iraqi law. According to the final version of the text, ...
Coalition forces and contractors will be subject to Iraqi law if they commit major and premeditated crimes while off-duty and off-base. ...
Iraqi forces surrounded a neighborhood in Baghdad yesterday, searching cars and houses for militants behind a rocket attack that killed two UN contractors, ...
We are carrying with us tonight the remains of a fallen American in Iraq. Please remain seated for the movement of the remains and for the American escorts ...
Though nobody knows the exact number, more than 300 private contractors have been killed in Iraq since the start of the war. In one particularly gruesome ...
By James Risen WASHINGTON - The thousands of American contractors in Iraq who have been above Iraqi law since the war began are suddenly facing a new era in ...
His comments came a day after a rocket slammed to the ground near the UN compound in the US-protected Green Zone, killing two foreign contractors providing ...
Two foreign contractors working for the United Nations were killed and 13 wounded Saturday when a rocket slammed into Baghdad's US-protected Green Zone. ...
I later found out that a rocket had struck the nearby United Nations compound, killing two South Asian contractors who work for a catering company. ...
contractors have been working inside making basic improvements, laying the groundwork for new carpets, doors, windows and office cubicles. ...
Baghdad, Iraq (AHN) - A rocket attack on Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone killed two UN contractors and wounded 15 others on Saturday. ...
Under the agreement, the American forces and contractors would be granted immunity from legal prosecution in Iraq's courts. The controversial agreement has ...
After more than nine months on duty in Iraq, the approximate 130 local guardsmen returned back home to Indiana amid cheers and rousing applause as they ...
Now, for two hours, the provincial government and the deputy prime minister, along with three dozen sheiks, contractors and military officials, debated, ...
By DAVID BARSTOW In the spring of 2007 a tiny military contractor with a slender track record went shopping for a precious Beltway commodity. ...
Two foreign contractors working for the UN have been killed and 15 wounded in a rocket attack on Baghdad's high-security Green Zone, the UN says. ...
In Iraq's hot, dry climate, it turns to dust, which blows into the eyes of anyone walking through the compound. At night, when sodium lamps illuminate the ...
Amnesty International also highlighted that while the agreement removes the immunity against prosecution of private contractors employed by the US ...
... contractor personnel had died in Iraq and Afghanistan in support of US military and political operations. Another 29000 contractors have been injured; ...

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The six companies -- Bechtel Group Inc., Fluor Corp., Halliburton Co. subsidiary Kellogg, Brown & Root, Louis Berger Group Inc., Parsons Corp. and Washington Group International Inc. -- contributed a combined $3.6 million in individual, PAC and soft money donations between 1999 and 2002, the Center reported on its news site, CapitalEye.org. Sixty-six percent of that total went to Republicans.
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Iraq Reconstruction Contract Database is a comprehensive, up-to-date, searchable, Internet-based, database of contracts and business opportunities related to Iraq’s reconstruction.
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