{"id":307415,"date":"2010-02-11T12:33:51","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T17:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=76413"},"modified":"2010-02-11T12:33:51","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T17:33:51","slug":"iraq-to-blackwater-you-don%e2%80%99t-have-to-go-home-but-you-can%e2%80%99t-stay-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/307415","title":{"rendered":"Iraq to Blackwater: You Don\u2019t Have to Go Home But You Can\u2019t Stay Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Iraqi government shows signs of increasing impatience with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/02\/10\/AR2010021003706.html?wprss=rss_world\/mideast\">Blackwater guards getting hired by other private security firms<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A top Iraqi official said Wednesday that guards formerly employed by the private security firm Blackwater Worldwide must leave the country within days.<span id=\"more-76413\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The statement by Interior Minister Jawad Bolani &#8212; made in an interview with the Associated Press &#8212; could lead to the expulsion of as many as 250 guards who once worked for Blackwater and who now work for other security firms in\u00a0<a style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0c4790;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-srv\/world\/countries\/iraq.html?nav=el\">Iraq<\/a>. The Interior Ministry controls the country&#8217;s police forces and licenses private security companies.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, this is right before the March 7 Iraqi national election, though, so who knows if Bolani is for real here. Many an Iraqi demand about Blackwater has fallen by the wayside.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in <a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5469461\/blackwater-allegedly-put-prostitute-on-the-payroll?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+gawker\/full+(Gawker\">other Blackwater\/Iraq news<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Iraqi government shows signs of increasing impatience with Blackwater guards getting hired by other private security firms: A top Iraqi official said Wednesday that guards formerly employed by the private security firm Blackwater Worldwide must leave the country within days. The statement by Interior Minister Jawad Bolani &#8212; made in an interview with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}