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December 18, 2008

State Dept. IG: Iraq Could Ban Blackwater
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The State Department Inspector General is warning the private military
firm Blackwater Worldwide could lose its authorization to operate in
Iraq next year. In a new report, the inspector general says there’s a
“real possibility” the Iraqi government will deny Blackwater a license
and ban it from the country. Five Blackwater guards were indicted
earlier this month for the September 2007 massacre of seventeen Iraqi
civilians in Baghdad.



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