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Article: Private guards increasingly providing security _ and coming under fire _ in Iraq
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- AP Worldstream
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- April 11, 2004
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EMERY P. DALESIO, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
04-11-2004
Dateline: MOYOCK, North Carolina
A dark sport utility vehicle threads down a narrow street as the sound of gunfire zings from buildings on the left. The vehicle stalls, and its occupants slide out, firing blanks at their attackers as they scramble for an alley.
The exercise provides training for the warfare of Iraq _ but this is no military boot camp.
At Blackwater USA's paramilitary training camp, private security guards prepare to work in Iraq, where they serve as commando teams, give strategic advice, even operate a military's supply lines _ all for a price.
The scene from the training camp was eerily echoed weeks later, ...