"The US has agreed to scrap immunity for foreign security guards in Iraq, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari says.The US embassy in Baghdad has not confirmed the announcement, which comes as the US and Iraq are negotiating a controversial security pact.Foreign firms employing thousands of guards won huge contracts in Iraq after the 2003 US-led invasion, but were not subject to Iraqi or US military law.Iraqi frustration became fury last year when guards killed 17 people in a day.Correspondents say a deal on scrapping contractors' immunity brings the two countries closer to signing the long-term security pact. "http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7484969.stm
"The US has agreed to scrap immunity for foreign security guards in Iraq, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari says.
The US embassy in Baghdad has not confirmed the announcement, which comes as the US and Iraq are negotiating a controversial security pact.
Foreign firms employing thousands of guards won huge contracts in Iraq after the 2003 US-led invasion, but were not subject to Iraqi or US military law.
Iraqi frustration became fury last year when guards killed 17 people in a day.
Correspondents say a deal on scrapping contractors' immunity brings the two countries closer to signing the long-term security pact. "
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7484969.stm
Good, Fucking cowboys.
"Security guards". Hired guns, is what they actually are.
Modern day Pinkertons.
Good. Fucking sociopaths.
Time to arrest some black water boys and put them on trial for murder, let's see where this leads.
>>7928 I'd prefer they receive field executions.
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