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Blackwater is the largest of the State Department's three private security contractors. (The others are Dyncorp and Triple Canopy, both based in Washington's northern Virginia suburbs.) It has roughly 1,000 security contractors in Iraq and a database of more than 6,000 independent contractors supporting more than 50 security operations around the world. Its guards, many of whom make about $500 to $600 per day to protect State Department personnel in Iraq, often have lengthy backgrounds in law enforcement and the military, including Special Forces.
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