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Article: VOA NEWS: CONGRESS HEARS EMOTIONAL TESTIMONY ABOUT LIVES LOST IN IRAQ
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- February 8, 2007
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The Voice of America issued the following story:
By Jim Fry The families of four privately-employed security guards who were killed in Iraq gave emotional testimony on Capitol Hill Wednesday. They told Congress the employer - a government contractor - failed to provide adequate protections. On the same day, the U.S. Justice Department indicted five former officials that prosecutors say took millions of dollars in cash and bribes out of Iraq.
Four security guards attacked in March 2004 were shot and burned in Fallujah. The Americans were then hung from a bridge. The gruesome deaths focused attention on their employer - Blackwater USA - and other private companies, or contractors, hired by ...