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Article: Blackwater loses bid to move suit to federal court.
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- August 25, 2006
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Byline: Joanne Kimberlin
Aug. 25--Blackwater Security Consulting took a hit in court Thursday, losing its bid to have a landmark lawsuit moved from a North Carolina state court to federal court. The lawsuit was filed by relatives of four Blackwater contractors ambushed and killed in Fallujah, Iraq, on March 31, 2004. The families say the Moyock -based company sent the men on the mission unprepared, undermanned and ill-equipped.
The case is being closely watched by the booming private military industry. More than 180 security companies are now working in Iraq, with nearly 50,000 workers filling government contracts to guard gates, escort shipments ...