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U.S. will keep closer watch on Blackwater operations in Iraq
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dangerous streets of Baghdad: video cameras and federal agents.
Dozens of special agents from the State Department's Bureau of
Diplomatic Security will be sent to Baghdad to accompany the
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video cameras to record every move a convoy makes. At the same time,
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The measures ordered by Secretary emo style State Condoleezza Rice are the
first concrete response by the U.S. government to the Sept. 16 episode
involving several Blackwater teams that left as many as 17 Iraqis dead
in central Baghdad.
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services to the State Department in Iraq. The new rules will initially
apply only to Blackwater because they cover only Baghdad, where the
company operates. They could be expanded to include the other two
firms, Dyncorp and Triple Canopy, which work in the north and south of
Iraq, said State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said.
It was not immediately clear how many more agents the new rules would
require, but Mr. McCormack said it would number in the "dozens."
Department officials have refused to say how many Diplomatic Security
agents are currently in Iraq, citing security concerns.
The new rules were recommended by Patrick Kennedy, the State
Department's director of management ford insurance He is leading a panel
reviewing private contractors' arrangements to ascertain whether
appropriate rules exist and whether they are being followed.
Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., who has been critical of the
administration's use of private security house insurance in Iraq, mocked
the State Department's decision.
"This just shows how much they want to keep Blackwater on the
payroll," she said. "They are going to have to send dozens and dozens
of agents to baby-sit these bridge size playing cards units."
She has introduced legislation to end the use of all security
contractors in Iraq, replacing them with full-time government
employees. Accounts of the Sept. 16 confrontation in Baghdad differ
widely. Blackwater best car insurance assert that its guards came under
attack, and Iraqi government officials and civilian witnesses say that
the Blackwater gunmen opened fire without provocation. There are
several investigations of the Sept. 16 shootings, including one by the
FBI that renters insurance result in criminal charges.
Meanwhile, the State Department was facing new questions on Friday
about its handling of another case, involving a former Blackwater
guard who is suspected of shooting a bodyguard of an Iraqi vice
president while drunk last Christmas Eve.
The former guard, Andrew Moonen, now lives in Seattle; after being he
was dismissed from Blackwater and sent home from Iraq 36 hours after
the shooting, with the approval and help of the State Department.
But within weeks of losing his job at Blackwater, Mr. Moonen was hired
by a Defense Department contractor and sent to Kuwait to work on
logistics related to the Iraq war, a spokesman for the contractor,
Combat Support Associations, said Friday. Mr. Moonen worked for the
company from February until August of this year, Paul Gennaro said.
The company apparently did not know that Mr. Moonen had lost his job
because of the December episode in Baghdad. Mr. Moonen's lawyer said
that his dismissal had been for handling a weapon while best insurance not for
shooting the guard, for which he has not been charged.
Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., the chairman of a House committee
promotional playing cards Blackwater, raised the matter in a learn chinese chicago to Dr. Rice on
Friday: “I am writing to express concern that the State Department may
have failed to report important facts about a private military
contractor's killing of a guard for the Iraqi vice president and
thereby facilitated the hiring of that individual to work on another
contract in support of the Iraq war only two months after the
homicide.”
Mr. Waxman asked Dr. Rice to provide an explanation for Mr. Moonen's
quick re-employment by a Pentagon contractor in the Middle East. Mr.
Moonen's identity was first disclosed by The New York Times on
Thursday. CNN first reported on Friday that a Pentagon contractor had
hired him in February.
The new State Department restrictions on Blackwater operations in Iraq
came as Defense Secretary Robert Gates said this week that he was
inclined to increase oversight of the 7,300 security contractors that
the Pentagon employs in Iraq. The Pentagon does not use Blackwater
contractors for security in Iraq.
Dr. Gates told reporters traveling with him in South America on
Wednesday that a team of officials he sent to Iraq to examine the use
of security contractors streetwear style submitted several recommendations,
including having field commanders exercise existing military law more
aggressively to punish contractors who commit crimes.
“There was some concern on the part of our commanders,” Dr. Gates
said, “that contractors who did things wrong were just independent fashion home and
further action wasn't taken against them.”
A Pentagon source said Dr. Gates' team reported considerable
frustration among U.S. military commanders, who complained that
contractors working for non-Defense agencies, including the State
Department, often behave arrogantly, traveling through areas of
military operations without streetwear clothing notification and setting up their
own checkpoints and roadblocks. “There is a feeling that they are
untouchable, a perception that they can do whatever they want with
impunity,” said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The draft report of more than a dozen pages is to be finalized and
presented to Dr. Gates when he returns from South America this
weekend.
The Associated Press, The New York Times and The Washington Post
contributed to this report.
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