A U.S. State Department motorcade came under attack in Baghdad on Sunday, prompting security contractors(mercenaries) guarding the convoy to open fire in the streets. At least nine civilians were killed, according to Iraqi officials.
A Washington Post employee in the area at the time of the shooting witnessed security company (mercenary) helicopters firing into the streets near Nisoor Square in Mansour. Witnesses said they saw dead and wounded people on the pavement.
The Iraqi government will investigate the incident and "probably will withdraw the authority for this security company in Baghdad," said Brig. Gen. Abdul-Karim Khalaf, an Interior Ministry spokesman.
"The security company contractors opened fire randomly on the civilians," he said. "We consider this act a crime."
Did you know that we have over 180,000 mercenaries in Iraq that are accountable to neither Iraqi or US law.
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