The Iraqi government said Tuesday it would review the status of private security companies as anger over the alleged involvement of Blackwater USA in a fatal shooting of civilians threatened to spread to other firms providing protection for dignitaries and Westerners on Iraq's chaotic streets.

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The Egyptian chief of security forces was replaced on Friday to try to defuse anger among police, an interior ministry official told BBC Arabic.

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"There is a state of anger on the streets of Port Said, and the security forces are on high alert, " Nile TV reported.

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However, anger over reports of civilian killings prompted President Hamid Karzai to order Afghan security forces to stop requesting coalition airstrikes.

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"Giving over half a million pounds of taxpayers' money to Bernard Matthews will cause considerable anger unless the business is also held to account for its bio-security lapses, " he said.

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Gen Kayani too has had to defend the army's relationship with the US as anger has grown about excessive US penetration of Pakistan's government and security establishment - even though some of the anti-Americanism has been whipped up by the military itself.

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Few things anger a trader more than seeing inaccessible market prints while actively trading in a particular security.

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But anger quickly became directed at the Suharto-era parliament, which passed a draconian security bill favored by the military on Thursday.

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