A confidential incident report, which has been provided by Iraqi National Police investigators to American military and civilian officials, concludes that the Blackwater vehicles "opened fire ...

The initial reaction by the Iraqi government after the Al-Nusur Square incident was to revoke Blackwater's license, expel the company from Iraq, and have the contractors involved in the shootings ...

a longtime critic of Blackwater. The March 2004 incident involving Blackwater was widely viewed as a turning point in the Iraq war after images of the mutilated bodies of the four guards were seen ...

The ouster of all Blackwater guards in Iraq could severely ... contractor has been prosecuted in the United States or Iraq. This current incident is the first in which the Iraqi government has ...

It applies to about 250 security contractors who worked for Blackwater in Iraq at the time of the incident, Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani told The Associated Press. Some of the guards now work ...

State Department officials have praised Blackwater's work in Iraq, noting that no personnel under the company's protection has been killed. However, after Nisoor Square incident, the firm came ...

The Iraqi government's effort to restrict the work of State Department contractor Blackwater USA could complicate U.S. diplomatic efforts, reconstruction work and possibly the current U.S. plan to ...

Incident investigations continue The FBI ... its courts were the proper venue in which to bring charges. Iraqi officials say Blackwater’s license to operate in Iraq expired on June 2, 2006 ...

She said the contractors involved in the incident were still in Iraq. But al-Maliki spoke out sharply against Blackwater, saying the shooting was “the seventh of its kind” involving the ...

Four former Blackwater security guards were convicted Wednesday in the 2007 shootings of more than 30 Iraqis in Baghdad, an incident that ... in Baghdad, the Iraqi capital, and elsewhere in ...

Dec. 12, 2011 — -- The private security firm once known as Blackwater, which was forced out of Iraq after a shooting incident in which 17 civilians died, has changed its name for the second ...