<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/3ff3b93b-a61e-473e-9908-765277ba4165/C10E1888-EBBD-4DCA-80D2-3704CBD26C05/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=4174" href="http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=4174" style="font-size: 11px;">therealnews.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=4174"><H3>US extends 'Blackwater' contract</H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=4174"><H2>Private contractors have proven to be highly controversial in Iraq where Blackwater has been banned.</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=4174"><div align="center"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/RQzbQ-wPQ68&autoplay=1&fs=1&hl=en&showsearch=0" height="329" width="400" wmode="opaque" quality="high" allowfullscreen="true" allownetworking="internal" enablehref="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=4174">Private contractors have proven to be highly controversial in Iraq where the security firm formerly known as Blackwater has been banned. But the US state department has extended a contract with the firm, now known as Xe, indefinitely, just as its contract was due to expire this month. Iraqis had long complained about incidents involving Blackwater's ground operations, particularly when a shooting by Blackwater guards in Baghdad, the Iraqi capital, in September 2007, left 17 civilians dead. The deaths further strained relations between Baghdad and Washington and led US prosecutors to bring charges against Blackwater and its founder, Erik Prince. But sources say the department has agreed to temporarily continue using a subsidiary known as Presidential Airways to provide helicopter transport for embassy employees around Iraq. Al Jazeera's Tom Ackerman reports</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C10E1888-EBBD-4DCA-80D2-3704CBD26C05/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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