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By Charles Fromm

The Iraqi government has ordered hundreds of private security contractors who previously worked for Blackwater Worldwide or its subsidiaries to leave the country within seven days or risk arrest for visa violations, Iraq’s interior minister said Wednesday.

The order applies to roughly 250 security contractors who worked for Blackwater, now known as Xe Services, in Iraq at the time of a deadly shooting incident in 2007 that killed 17 civilians in Baghdad’s Nisour Square, Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani told The Associated Press.A number of the guards now work for other security contractors in Iraq, or a Blackwater subsidiary that still remains active in the country. (more…)

A Democracy Now! exclusive report from Jeremy Scahill about a nine year old boy, shot in the head and killed by Blackwater in the infamous Nisour Squre massacre. His father, who is suing the private military contractor, provides the most detailed eyewitness account of the massacre to date. Scahill has conducted an in-depth investigation of the massacre and of nine-year old Ali Kinani’s death. (more…)

Today there are many prisoners who have been victims of kidnapping and imprisonment, the practice known as extraordinary rendition, they have been unlawful arrested and detained by the British and American governments.

Accused by their captors of having links with terrorism, these two men have been held in secret prisons for many years, held incommunicado without any access to the outside world.

Reprieve has recently released conclusive results that their investigations have revealed the identity of two such men, one man, Amanatullah Ali, and the other man is known by the name Salahuddin.

Reprieve is a UK based Human Rights organisation which investigates the cases of prisoners who have been imprisoned without recourse to due legal processes

Reprieve have produced evidence which shows that the the British government has consistently misled parliament and the public about their involvement in any extraordinary rendition operations. (more…)