Private Security Puts Diplomats, Military at Odds
Source: By Sudarsan Raghavan and Thomas E. Ricks, Washington Post, Wednesday, September 26, 2007
A confrontation between the U.S. military and the State Department is unfolding over the involvement of Blackwater USA in the shooting deaths of Iraqi civilians in a Baghdad square Sept. 16, bringing to the surface long-simmering tensions between the military and private security companies in Iraq, according to U.S. military and government officials.