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Article

12 Nov 2007

Author:
James Glanz, with Mudhafer al-Husaini & Ahmad Fadam, New York Times

Security Guard Fires From Convoy, Killing Iraqi Driver

An Iraqi taxi driver was shot and killed on Saturday by a guard with DynCorp International, a private security company..., when a DynCorp convoy rolled past a knot of traffic...in Baghdad, the Iraqi Interior Ministry said Sunday... Three witnesses said the taxi had posed no threat to the convoy... Gregory Lagana, a DynCorp spokesman, said... “We’ve stood down that particular team,” ...pending an investigation. “We take this kind of thing very seriously.” ...Mr. Lagana said the DynCorp guards reported that they were unaware that they had wounded or killed anyone. [also refers to Blackwater]