Security firm Blackwater promises to leave Iraq

Friday, January 30, 2009

MOYOCK, N.C. -- Blackwater Worldwide, denied an operating license in Iraq because of lingering outrage over a deadly shooting spree in Baghdad, promised Thursday to leave the country where it guards American diplomats within 72 hours of being ordered out by the State Department.

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