Five eyewitnesses to a Sept. 16 shooting incident in Baghdad involving the private security firm Blackwater USA insisted that company guards fired without provocation, forcing civilians and Iraqi police to run for cover, and that the Iraqi officers did not return fire... The latest eyewitness accounts emerged as the State Department announced the creation of a high-level panel to assess whether the appropriate rules are in place for the three private firms that protect U.S. diplomats and other civilian officials, whether the companies...are following those rules... An ABC News report Friday quoted what it said were sworn statements from Blackwater employees [about the incident]... The eyewitnesses – three traffic policemen and two maintenance workers who were interviewed separately – offered a dramatically different account of the events in Nisour Square, The Washington Post reported. [also refers to DynCorp]