Did Blackwater have any reputation, any different from any other security contractor in Iraq when you were there?
But at Lockerbie only Pan Am and its security contractor were held to blame by civil courts.
The action Friday follows a shooting incident by private security contractor Blackwater USA that killed 13 Iraqis in Baghdad.
Now he claims to earn his living as a private security contractor.
He started working as a private security contractor after leaving the Army.
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The event's private security contractor, G4S, was forced to admit that it was short of staff and asked the army to step in to help.
Blackwater is not the only security contractor in the Middle East.
Mr White, who was hired to help guard Shindand airbase in the western Afghan province of Herat, was killed in 2007 by a rival Afghan security contractor.
This week the New York Times reported that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had once hired Blackwater, a private-security contractor, in connection with a plots to assassinate al-Qaeda operatives.
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The government is deploying 18, 200 troops -- many more than planned after private security contractor G4S announced it could not provide the 10, 400 guards for which it had been contracted.
The arrivals begin amid a security snafu, as the government prepares to call in 3, 500 military personnel because the security contractor says it does not expect to have enough staff in place.
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Let's go on the Blackwater USA and the Iraqi interior minister saying, yeah, I'm going to okay raid into western security contractor's officers to make sure they're following all the new restrictions about firearms.
Iraq's National Security Advisor, Mouwafak al-Rubaie was in Washington this week and was asked about controversial security contractor Blackwater and the problem of holding security contractors accountable for what they do in his country.
Report of abuses by civilian interrogators at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, in addition to security contractor incidents inIraqresulting in civilian casualties, highlight the negative publicity that isolated incidents involving the private security industry can generate.
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The An effort was rattled in the homestretch when a private security contractor, G4S PLC, failed to provide as many guards as it promised to guard stadiums, forcing the military to provide more soldiers for the operations.
With just over a week to go till the Games start, official security contractor G4S has admitted it underestimated how much staff it would need to guard the various events and now, hey ho, the government has to bring in the army.
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He points to the incident involving Danny Fitzsimons - who shot dead Scottish security contractor Paul McGuigan and another colleague in Iraq in 2009 while suffering from PTSD - as evidence that the condition is a very real risk factor for those working as private security contractors.
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Here too, the biggest problem was lack of security, the local contractor told me.
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Truth be told, even the most elemental CIA activity meeting recruited agents or "developmentals" outside of well-guarded compounds often cannot be done without contractor-supplied security.
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The government put the latest batch of troops on standby last week, amid the security fiasco caused by a contractor's failure to supply enough guards for the Games.
The guards employed by G4S will be responsible chiefly for such tasks as providing venue perimeter security, a spokesman for the contractor said.
Huawei equipment for America and Canada, he says, is independently vetted by Electronic Warfare Associates, an American defence contractor well supplied with security clearances and experience.
For those that can remember, the contract, which named Boeing as a prime contractor to build a security fence on the US- Mexico border, was terminated in 2011, because it was considered to be too expensive and ineffective.
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The army and police have stepped in to fill a gap left by G4S, a contractor which failed to provide enough security staff.
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As an Army reserve officer and defense contractor, Bishop would have received security briefings on this and understood "how sex may be used for intelligence targeting, " Wortzel said.
One involved a drunken Blackwater contractor who killed an Iraqi vice presidential security guard on Christmas Eve 2006.
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