Seven civilian contractors to the U.S. military have also died since the 2003 invasion.
That order gave civilian contractors in Iraq immunity from prosecution in local Iraqi courts.
That could mean that only lower-level CIA staff, and perhaps civilian contractors, would appear in the dock.
And as civilian contractors, Blackwater employees are not subject to U.S. military law.
Seven American civilian contractors of the military also have died in the conflict.
As civilian contractors, Blackwater employees are also not subject to U.S. military law.
Four U.S. civilian contractors were killed Wednesday in a grenade attack by suspected insurgents in Fallujah, their bodies mutilated afterward by cheering residents.
The recently approved U.S.-Iraqi security agreement specifies that U.S. civilian contractors will no longer be immune from Iraqi prosecution for crimes committed in that country.
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The suicide bomber targeted a military convoy Thursday morning, killing two U.S. troops, four U.S. civilian contractors and nine Afghan civilians, according to Afghan and Western officials.
Biometrics was a notorious mess, but Rogers excelled in the role, owing in large part to his facility for reconciling the technological demands of civilian contractors with the Army bureaucracy.
The agreement would not involve increasing the number of American personnel in the country (capped by law at 800 troops and 600 civilian contractors, although only 250 are currently there).
The current U.S.-Iraqi security agreement -- which was approved in December -- specifies that U.S. civilian contractors will no longer be immune from Iraqi prosecution for crimes committed in that country.
Although civilian contractors like Haliburton have become favorite whipping boys for anti-war critics, their personnel are also putting their lives on the line to help the people of Iraq turn things around.
The deadly 2007 incident heightened tensions between U.S. and Iraqi government officials and contributed to a protracted, ongoing debate over the extent of immunity that U.S. military personnel and civilian contractors will have from Iraqi laws.
In an email question-and-answer exchange with the Virginia- Pilot in 2006, he wrote that his Navy experience convinced him of the need for a company that could provide advanced training to military personnel and civilian contractors.
He can decide on a steady drip of catastrophe food inspectors furloughed on the 15th, long lines at the airport on the 18th, sobbing children missing Head Start on the 20th, civilian contractors pointing to a rusting U.S.S. Truman on the 25th.
Two Unmiss national staff and five civilian staff contractors were also killed in the attack.
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The result was the murder of 2 American civilian defense contractors in Istanbul and the wounding of a U.S. military officer in Izmir.
For example, the U.S. and Afghan governments signed a bilateral agreement in 2003 that states the U.S. government, its military and civilian personnel and contractors aren't liable for Afghan taxes.
The sequester will have serious consequences for Defense Department contractors, civilian workers, and for our defense readiness.
The Pentagon wants its own "Iraq Survey Group" of military personnel, U.S. government intelligence analysts, civilian scientists and private contractors to look for any illegal weapons sites.
In recent years as defense spending began leveling off, Pentagon policymakers canceled or cut back dozens of weapons systems, but they did little to reduce the bloated ranks of military and civilian personnel (not to mention contractors).
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The Department of Defense currently spends more on private contractors than on all of its civilian and military personnel combined, and many of them perform redundant tasks that could be done more cheaply by government employees.
Almost all had children, and told me they had become contractors because they were able to earn a great deal more money than in civilian jobs back home.
Foreign contractors whisper darkly of fertiliser plants that consume suspiciously high amounts of electricity, and purportedly civilian factories defended by banks of anti-aircraft guns.
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