Interior: security companies threaten national security and work under the control of
On: Friday 2/12/2011 5:23
Baghdad / follow-up term
Interior Ministry confirmed on Thursday that private security companies under control and control of Iraq, asserting that the licensee is the only remain in the country, with a project considered a security counterweight to the national security project and a threat to him.
The agent said the oldest of the Ministry of the Interior Adnan al-Asadi said in a statement, she received a "Sumerian News": The "private security companies under the control and oversight of Iraq and the licensee only is stay in the country to work under the auspices of an Iraqi, and that is licensed will hand over to the Iraqi leadership," noting that it "under control for the presence of the Directorate of specialized work, with a reservation we have about the existence and continued operation."
said Assadi, that "private security companies project risk, too, and prepare a security countermeasure project of national security, and a threat to him from our point of view in the Ministry of the Interior", revealing "The ministry seeks to make decisions to reduce the work of these companies." The activity of private security companies in Iraq, has emerged after U.S. forces entered the country, in April 2003, by the state of lawlessness witnessed, and the occupation authority to dissolve the Iraqi security forces. Announced the Iraqi Council of Representatives in (9 August 2011), his intention to legislation law to regulate private security companies, stating that its provisions will apply to local private companies and branches of foreign companies and workers.
and called on Iraqi Human Rights Ministry, at (18 May 2011), affected by the Before working in the security companies to promote the transactions for compensation, saying it will work on corporate accountability caused damage legal.
The Ministry of Interior controls several companies to work the security end of 2009 included identifying the weapons used by these companies, and to prevent possession of explosives, as well as determine the scope of work within the territory of Iraq, also confirmed the instructions to withdraw the license to the company and its demand to leave Iraq within a week if you do not adhere to these controls, and was the issuance of such controls after accusing five members of Blackwater that were operating in the protection of the U.S. Embassy and its characters since April 2003 until the end of 2008, killing 14 Iraqis and wounded 18 others on 16 September 2007, following a shoot indiscriminately at civilians in the Eagles Square west of Baghdad.
The number of security companies working in Iraq from 172 to 78, including 24 foreign companies only, and started these companies work on the ninth of April 2003 until early 2009, which saw the implementation of the security agreement between Iraq and the United States, under which immunity for foreign security companies in Iraq. The CPA disbanded issued Resolution No. 17 in the twenty-fourth of June 2004 gave the immunity of the work of foreign security companies operating in Iraq and its members, began its presence on Iraqi territory as providing protection services in the country, and gave the decision right for the U.S. Army's only the arrest of the elements of these companies If you have committed any violation of Iraqi law.
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