Tue Nov 10, 9:47 PM ET

An Iraqi woman looks inside a blood-splattered car where two women were allegedly shot dead by private security guards in central Baghdad. Executives at US private security firm Blackwater approved secret payments of about one million dollars to Iraqi officials to "silence their criticism" after company guards killed 17 civilians in the Iraqi capital in 2007, the New York Times has said. (AFP/File/Ali Yussef)

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