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U.S.-Iraq Deal Could Mean Jail Time for Contractors
Posted: October 20th, 2008, 10:41am EDT by Nathan Hodge
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Not too long ago, private security contractors in Iraq had a get-out-of-jail-free card; they could run around the country without a chance in the world that they could be prosecuted for anything they did. A draft of the U.S.-Iraq security deal, now making the rounds in Washington and Baghdad, could change all that. Guns-for-hire in Iraq could suddenly find themselves facing time in an Iraqi prison, if they broke the local laws.