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Joint security crackdown launched
By TIMES WIRES
Published February 8, 2007
The new Baghdad security operation has officially begun, a U.S. military spokesman, Maj. Gen. William Caldwell, said Wednesday, but he said it will take hold gradually and will not be completely in place for some time. The operation is the third attempt by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and his U.S. backers to control Baghdad since the Shiite leader came to office in May. Elsewhere New York: El Paso Corp., the nation's largest natural gas pipeline company, agreed to pay the federal government $7.7-million to settle corruption allegations related to the U.N. oil-for-food scandal over aid to Iraq, according to a settlement announced Wednesday. Washington: The Army announced during a House oversight committee hearing on Wednesday that it would withhold $19.6-million from the Halliburton company after recently discovering that the contractor had hired the company Blackwater USA to provide armed security guards in Iraq, a potential breach of its contract. Washington: Three Army Reserve officers and a U.S. contractor were indicted Wednesday as part of a bid-rigging scam involving millions of dollars of Iraq reconstruction projects. Rome: A judge Wednesday ordered U.S. Spc. Mario Lozano to stand trial in absentia for the fatal shooting of an Italian intelligence agent at a checkpoint in Baghdad in 2005, prosecutor Pietro Saviotti said.
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