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NEWS ABOUT: security guards

security guards stories: 13 news summaries

Airport Guard Arrested Over Obama Threats

Fellow NJ worker reportedly overheard him making remarks

Oct 21, 09 2:54 PM CDT
(AP) - A private security guard at Newark Liberty International Airport has been arrested on charges of threatening President Obama before the president was to fly there. A Continental Airlines employee reported overhearing John Brek make threatening comments at an airport coffee cart yesterday afternoon. The 55-year-old security guard was arrested several... More »

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death threats • Newark • airport security • arrest • security guards • Newark airport • President Obama

 Blackwater Bilked US Out of 
 $55M for Iraq Security: Audit 

Company didn't provide enough workers

Jun 16, 09 9:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - The US overpaid Blackwater by $55 million for its security work in Iraq, a government audit has found. The company, since renamed Xe, didn't employ enough guards, medics, and other personnel to protect high-level officials but still collected full payment from the State Department, the Wall Street Journal reports. "... More »

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Iraq • Afghanistan • State Department • Blackwater • security guards • audit • government contracts • Xe

'Gentle Giant' Mourned After Museum Shooting

'Outstanding' guard hailed as a hero

Jun 11, 09 1:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - Colleagues at the National Holocaust Museum remember slain security guard Stephen Johns as unfailingly courteous and friendly, the Washington Post reports. The 39-year-old guard was killed in the line of duty yesterday when a gunman walked into the museum and opened fire. "There are no words to express our... More »

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Holocaust Museum • security guards • anti-Semitism • National Holocaust Museum • James Von Brunn • Stephen Johns

 2 Shot at DC Holocaust Museum 

Suspect also shot, taken to hospital

Jun 10, 09 1:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - A man armed with a rifle shot a security guard today at Washington’s National Holocaust Museum, WTOP-AM reports. Police say two other guards fired back at the alleged shooter, striking him. A third person was injured by flying glass at the tourist attraction, which typically has high security. Guard... More »

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crime • Washington DC • security guards • shooting • National Holocaust Museum

 Big Apple Is Easy 
 Target for Bank Robbers 

444 robberies last year due to poor security, says commish

Apr 5, 09 3:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - Crime in New York's five boroughs was down again last year, but Police Commissioner Ray Kelly isn't happy. That's because bank robberies have gone up by 57% in that same time, which amounts to daily heists in downtown Manhattan. Kelly blames the trend on banks' reluctance to enact security measures... More »

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crime • New York • bank robbery • security guards • Ray Kelly

 Streaker Stalls 
 Williams Sisters' Match 

Near-naked man on court for 14 seconds

Jan 23, 09 10:19 AM CST
(Newser) - A male streaker burst onto the court for 14 seconds as Venus and Serena Williams played a doubles match today at the Australian Open, Reuters reports. Guards caught the man when he dashed to another court; he was barred from the rest of the tournament. Earlier, an ethnic brawl broke... More »

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tennis • Serena Williams • Venus Williams • Australian Open • security guards • streaker

Facing Charges, 5 Blackwater Guards to Surrender

Sixth working on plea in '07 Baghdad massacre

Dec 7, 08 8:48 AM CST
(Newser) - Five ex-Blackwater security guards will surrender to the FBI tomorrow after indictments in a 2007 shooting that killed 17 Iraqis, CNN reports. A sixth is negotiating a plea. Blackwater says its former workers were responding to an attack, but an Iraqi probe called the incident “premeditated murder.” The... More »

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Blackwater • indictment • surrender • security guards • security contractors


 Brad Pitt 
 Roughed Up 
 by Own Guard 

Security mistook the actor for a photog at LA movie event

Nov 12, 08 11:11 AM CST
(Newser) - Brad Pitt got to see how the other half lives when a bouncer at a promotional event for his latest movie failed to recognize the star and tried to pin him to a wall. The guard pulled Pitt out of a crowd of paparazzi that had infiltrated a secure area... More »

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Brad Pitt • film • mistaken identity • celebrity • security guards • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Blackwater Guards May
Be Charged in Iraq Shooting

Prosecutors target 6
in Sept. incident

Aug 17, 08 6:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - Federal prosecutors are close to seeing indictments against some of the Blackwater security guards linked to the shooting in Baghdad last September that left 17 civilians dead, the Washington Post reports. Target letters have gone out to six Blackwater contractors, sources tell the Post, indicating a high likelihood that the... More »

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Iraq • Blackwater • indictment • security guards • Iraq contractors • Iraq war

Iraq Hired Guns Fight en Español

Contractors offer hard-to-refuse deal

Jan 28, 08 2:20 PM CST
(Newser) - Not every security contractor in Iraq is a hotshot American making $500 a day. Many of the private security personnel roaming Iraq are poor Latin Americans, for whom the promise of $1,000 a month and full benefits is nearly irresistible, reports the LA Times. “I’d rather... More »

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Iraq • Latin America • Peru • security guards • Triple Canopy • security contractors • private security guards • Iraq war

UK Probe Finds 6K Illegals in Security Jobs

Home Office takes
heat over 11K total given clearance

Dec 13, 07 2:07 PM CST
(Newser) - UK Home Secretary Jacqui Smith came under fire today after an investigation revealed that as many as 11,000 illegal immigrants are employed in or have been cleared for security jobs, including one man who guarded the PM's car. Of those workers, 6,653 were found to have no permission... More »

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United Kingdom • airport security • illegal immigration • Jacqui Smith • security guards

Guards Kill Baghdad
Taxi Driver

Workers for security contractor accused of unprovoked slaying

Nov 12, 07 10:05 AM CST
(Newser) - A convoy run by American security contractor DynCorp International shot and killed an Iraqi taxi driver on a Baghdad roadside Saturday, the Iraqi Interior Ministry said yesterday. “They just killed a man and drove away,” said a spokesman. Witnesses said the driver posed no apparent threat; an Iraqi... More »

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Iraq • Blackwater • DynCorp International • Iraqi security forces • security guards • security contractors

Blackwater Shooters Were Not Provoked, Iraq Says

Hired guards guilty in massacre: Baghdad

Sep 21, 07 8:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - A man who failed to stop for a traffic policeman and a screaming woman with a baby in her arms were shot dead as they crossed a busy Baghdad intersection guarded by private US security guards, according to a harrowing Iraqi account of the incident Sunday that left eight civilians... More »

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Iraq • Nouri al-Maliki • Blackwater • security guards • Ministry of Interior • Nisour Square • Jawad al Bolani • shooting

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