Last autumn, Blackwater Worldwide was in deep peril. Guards for the security company were involved in a shooting in September that left at least 17 Iraqis dead at a Baghdad intersection. Outrage over the killings prompted the Iraqi government to demand Blackwater's ouster from the country... The State Department has just renewed its contract to provide security for U.S. diplomats in Iraq for at least another year... No charges have yet been brought in the United States against any Blackwater guards in the September shooting.
