Blackwater begins pullout of Iraq

Source: Gulf News

Baghdad: Iraqi Interior Ministry sources have said that American and British security firms have started to leave Iraq.

"We have information from Baghdad airport saying that 90 to 120 individuals working for the private security firm, Blackwater, are leaving Baghdad every day in an American military aircraft, this is in addition to more than 44 personnel from the UK-based Olive Group who left Iraq last week," Colonel Arkan Adnan, an Iraqi officer at the Interior Ministry told Gulf News.

Some Sunni and Shiite armed groups have declared that the forthcoming days will witness vindictive operations against all foreign private security convoys as revenge against the lives of innocent Iraqis who were killed by personnel working for these firms.

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"Colombian, Chilean and Jordanian security companies may expand their work in Baghdad. These companies are known for their good record and their willingness to rectify mistakes carried out by previous American, Australian and British security firms who would often open fire in the street carelessly," sources at the information and investigations agency at the Iraqi Interior Ministry told Gulf News.

These sources added: "There are some 5,000 individuals working for Colombian, Chilean and Jordanian security firms and these companies have contracts with the coalition authorities, not with the Iraqi government."

"As long as the security situation in Iraq, especially in Baghdad, keeps deteriorating the Iraqi government cannot ask foreign private security firms to leave. Security companies such as Colombian, Chilean and Jordanian work well for the country's diplomats and businessmen. By this they are helping the Iraqi government unlike the British and American companies that act against the law and Iraqi authority simply because they are supported by the occupation forces," Hussain Al Jibouri, a lieutenant in the Iraqi Army told Gulf News.



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GOOD JOB Y'ALL:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

coming soon....
to YOUR town!!

compared to the PNAC praetorian guard. Great. :eyes:

Thought I was the only one.

?????

but they sure as hell will protect their corporate troops...that's where they get their tax dollar kick-backs for re-election and vote stealing.

When did it become American policy to start outsourcing millitary operations?

It was just a trickle back in the 90's, but under Bush&Co it has exploded into a full blown flood.

DynCorp, Vinnell, etc.???

List of US 'Private Military Companies'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_military_company#U.S._companies

Something is up.

Aren't some of these thugs suppose to stand trial for murder?