Shootings may lead to security guard curb (umm, right)

[Barrett808]

Shootings may lead to security guard curb
By Adrian Blomfield in Baghdad
(Filed: 11/06/2005)

Iraq's interior ministry said yesterday it wanted to impose legal boundaries on the private security business after American contractors twice opened fire on US marines.

The move may be supported by the US military, whose patience with the contractors has been tested.

They were angered by an incident late last month in Fallujah, the former insurgent stronghold recaptured by US forces last year.

The marines say one of their combat teams came under fire from guards in a convoy of four-wheel-drives belonging to Zapata Engineering, a firm based in North Carolina that is involved in reconstruction projects.

A marine observation post was fired at three hours later by the same convoy, according to Lt Col Dave Lapan, a marines spokesman.

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http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/06/11/wirq11.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/06/11/ixportaltop.html

[havocmom]

1. Pure & Simple: war being waged by corporations, not nations

There are no nations anymore.

[Shipwack]

2. This is a perfect opportunity...

They should mandate that only security firms that have high quality standards be allowed to work in Iraq... say Haliburton, for instance...