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Security Guard Fires From
Convoy, Killing Iraqi Driver
JAMES GLANZ
NY
Times
Monday November 12, 2007
An Iraqi taxi driver was shot and killed on Saturday by a guard
with DynCorp International, a private security company hired to
protect American diplomats here, when a DynCorp convoy rolled
past a knot of traffic on an exit ramp in Baghdad, the Iraqi Interior
Ministry said Sunday.
Three witnesses said the taxi had posed no threat to the convoy,
and one of them, an Iraqi Army sergeant who inspected the car
afterward, said it contained no weapons or explosive devices.
“They just killed a man and drove away,” Maj. Gen.
Abdul-Karim Khalaf, an Interior Ministry spokesman, said in his
office on Sunday afternoon. He added later, “We have opened
an investigation, and we have contacted the company and told them
about our accusations, and we are still waiting for their response.”
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It was the latest in what the Iraqi government has said are unprovoked
shootings on the streets of Baghdad by security companies hired
by the State Department or contractors affiliated with it. On
Sept. 16, guards with another of those concerns, Blackwater, opened
fire a few miles south of Saturday’s shooting, killing 17
Iraqi civilians and wounding at least 24, according to Iraqi investigators.
The Iraqi government has accused Blackwater of involvement in
at least six questionable shootings in Baghdad since September
2006. DynCorp has not drawn the same scrutiny, though it is unclear
whether it has been involved in any other episodes in which Iraqis
have been killed.
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