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Iraqi Security Forces Arrest Five American Civilians
The Washington Post ^ | June 8, 2009 | Nada Bakri

Posted on 06/08/2009 6:02:40 AM PDT by khnyny

BAGHDAD, June 7 -- Iraqi security forces have arrested five Americans in connection with the killing of a contractor last month in Baghdad's Green Zone, Iraqi officials said Sunday. It could be the first case in which Americans face local justice under a security pact signed last year.

The Americans were detained Wednesday, although U.S. and Iraqi officials say no charges have been filed. James Fennell, a U.S. Embassy spokesman, said Sunday that consular officials had visited the men a day after their arrest to make sure "they're being afforded their rights under Iraqi law."

"The men appeared well," he said.

Maj. Gen. Abdul-Karim Khalaf, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry, said the men were being held at a police station in the Green Zone as part of a joint U.S.-Iraqi investigation. He said FBI agents had provided a tip to Iraqi forces, then accompanied them on a raid at a house where they had uncovered weapons and drugs.

But there were conflicting accounts about the arrest and possible charges.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: corruption; iraq; kitterman; wot
There is something not right about this story - I suspect there is much more. The following story is related, imho.

http://www.wtop.com/?nid=116&pid=0&sid=1691509&page=1

"Panel finds lax oversight of wartime contracting" U.S. reliance on private sector employees has grown to "unprecedented proportions," yet the government has no central database of who all these contractors are, what they do or how much they're paid, the bipartisan commission found.

1 posted on 06/08/2009 6:02:40 AM PDT by khnyny
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To: khnyny

I agree, those 5 Americans were probably CIA or the like.


2 posted on 06/08/2009 7:00:09 AM PDT by stuartcr (Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different.)
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To: stuartcr

That’s not what I was inferring. US contractors (and some recently indicted British contractors, among others) may have been operating their own personal criminal enterprises.

The Iraqi trade minister recently had to resign over internal corruption charges.


3 posted on 06/08/2009 8:29:47 AM PDT by khnyny ("The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.")
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To: khnyny

Yes, that too.


4 posted on 06/08/2009 8:38:51 AM PDT by stuartcr (Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different.)
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