... "This is bad news," al-Maliki adviser Sami al-Askari said. "I personally am not happy with this, especially because they have committed acts of aggression, killed Iraqis, and this has not been resolved yet positively for families of victims."
About 25,000 private contractors from three companies protect diplomats, reconstruction workers and government officials in Iraq. Under a provision put into place in the early days of the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq, security contractors have immunity from Iraqi prosecution ...
"The U.S. government has the right to choose what contractors it chooses, but Iraq should also have the right to allow or ban certain contractors from operating on its territory," he said ...
Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said ... ".. the Iraqi investigation concluded that Blackwater committed a crime at Nusour Square" ...
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/04/05/iraq.blackwater/?iref=mpstoryview
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