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Article: Blackwater at center of debate over private military contractors.
- Article from:
- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- February 8, 2007
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Byline: Bill Sizemore
Feb. 8--WASHINGTON -- Four women put a human face Wednesday on the murky world of private military contractors, a world that the new Democrat-controlled Congress is moving aggressively to investigate. At the center of those efforts is Blackwater USA. In often-emotional testimony, a House committee heard from family members of the four Blackwater contractors who were killed, their bodies mutilated and hung from a bridge in Fallujah, Iraq, in March 2004. The images of that incident prompted a devastating U.S. assault on the city and spurred the Iraqi insurgency to new heights. It also catapulted Blackwater to center stage in an evolving debate ...
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