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New York Times
October 28, 2008 – At least 310 private security companies from around the world have received contracts from United States agencies to protect American and Iraqi officials, installations, convoys and other entities in Iraq since 2003, according to the most comprehensive accounting yet of the secretive and weakly regulated role that private firms have played in the conflict.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/29/world/middleeast/29protect.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
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