Topic: Private Contractors

Iraq Asserts Sovereignity with the U.S. Contractors Who Have Remained

Reuters

Nine years of ill will built up toward American contractors working in Iraq is finally (and unsurprisingly) coming to head now that the U.S. military is officially withdrawn from the country.

By Adam Martin

Dec 13, 2011

Blackwater Shot a Dog in Iraq

Blackwater (now known as Academi) got kicked out of Iraq specifically for shooting 17 civilians in 2007, but they shot a lot more than that, including a dog raised by a group of New York Times reporters, according to a cache of documents obtained by Gawker.

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By Elspeth Reeve

May 4, 2011

John Ashcroft Now in Charge of Blackwater's Ethics

The notorious private contractor is still in the market for government contracts

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