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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Wednesday, 19 September 2007 :: from www.uruknet.info :: news from occupied Iraq - it

Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Wednesday, 19 September 2007 :: from www.uruknet.info :: news from occupied Iraq - it: "Iraqi puppet regime backs away from reports it was rescinding license of mercenary security company 'Blackwater' following Sunday massacre of civilians in west Baghdad. In a dispatch posted at 12:52pm Baghdad time midday Wednesday, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that the US-installed regime of 'Prime Minister' Nuri al-Maliki backed away from its earlier announcement that it had withdrawn the license of the American mercenary security contractor 'Blackwater' to operate in Iraq following Sunday’s massacre of Iraqi civilians in western Baghdad."

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