Immunity Over Security by Steve Soto. The GOP and Bush Administration are perfectly willing to let our intelligence capabilities degrade somewhat if they don't get retroactive ...

... are likely to target widely-hated American security contractors when they lose their immunity to ... conditional on the effectiveness of the Iraqi security forces, which now number over ...

The current incident is the first in which the Iraqi government has challenged the United States over the blanket immunity for foreign private security contractors, who number ...

... States are still far apart on the issue of immunity for American troops, according to a draft security ... states that Iraq will have jurisdiction over employees of private security ...

The immunity issue was one of the sticking points in talks over a long-term security pact that deals with, among other things, the future of the U.S. military presence in Iraq.