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WASHINGTON — Pentagon and State Department officials have reached a general understanding that U.S. military commanders in Baghdad should have more oversight of the government’s private security contractors in Iraq and greater control over their movement, officials said Tuesday.
The military also wants to have a better understanding about how the private guards are trained and assurance that they are all following the same rules for the use of deadly force, said Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell.
“One entity has got to know who’s going where and when and what they’re doing there,” Morrell told reporters. That entity, he said, would be the military command in Iraq.
