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Article: VOA NEWS: BAGHDAD INCIDENT RENEWS DEBATE OVER SECURITY CONTRACTORS

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September 21, 2007
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The Voice of America issued the following story:

By Al Pessin

Last Sunday during a shoot-out in Baghdad, American security contractors from the Blackwater company, who were protecting a U.S. diplomatic convoy, killed several Iraqi civilians. Blackwater says its guards were firing at insurgents, but witnesses say at least some of the dead civilians were innocent bystanders. The incident is under investigation, but it has renewed the controversy over the role of private security forces in Iraq, and raised questions about who controls them and how they can be held responsible for their actions. VOA's Al Pessin reports from the Pentagon.

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