Summary
Because there are too few troops trained in executive protection (and too few to protect the large number of State, CIA and other government employees in Iraq) the State Department and other agencies had to hire contractors to perform protective services. (According to a Congressional Research Service report, as of September 2008, there are still about 10,000 contractor personnel in Iraq providing quasi-military security services.) Iraqi Law Immunity From the beginning, there has been enormous political pressure to end the immunity from Iraqi law that the contractors have had since L. Paul Bremer decreed it in 2003.
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Prosecution of Blackwater's Raven 23 Begins
Around noon on Sept. 16, 2007, "Raven 23", a tactical support team of Blackwater Worldwide security guards in Iraq, on contract to the State Department, was responding to an attack on another Blackwater convoy transporting a State Department person. As that convoy evacuated the site of the attack, Raven 23-which was headed back to the Green Zone-turned around to come to their aid. Because the evacuating...
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