$6 million to protect Iraqi deputies from attack

Mustafa al-Hashemi, Azzaman

The Iraqi parliament is to sign a $6 million deal with a foreign security firm that will deploy guards to protect the deputies. Adel Barbari of the Parliamentary Defense and Security Committee said the company, which he declined to name would station guards at premises where the deputies meet protect them against violent attacks. Foreign guards of whom there are tens of thousands in Iraq earn huge sums of money with a base annual salary of $150,000...
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