Arrested: General Motors Security Guards (Baghdad)

[Barrett808]

Source: Voices of Iraq

Arrested: General Motors Security Guards
Iraqi MIlitary Forces Say They Had Warrant to Arrest All Guards At GM's Iraq HQ

Baghdad (VOI) – Iraqi forces surrounded a headquarter for the General Motors Corporation in southeastern Baghdad's Oqba Ibn Nafi square and arrested all its security guards, a source from the corporation said on Sunday.

"A large military force accompanied by Hummer military vehicles surrounded the building at 10:00 am this morning, while the traffic police blocked all roads leading to it, causing panic among the corporation's employees," the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI).

The source indicated that the force had an arrest warrant for the corporation's security guards.

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[notadmblnd]

1. Gm outsourced their security back in the 90's

I don't recall the company.. but it could be Wackenhut.

[LiberalFighter]

2. It use to be Pinkerton now I believe they are Securitas or something like that

They pay them less than Pinkerton.

[stillcool]

3. Wackenhut...

not exactly out-sourcing...a link to one of their sites:

http://www.wackenhut-oakridge.com/index.html
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...they are certainly multi-national,..and have had several spin-offs, and mergers... which raised some questions in Congress about their guarding this country's nuclear facilities. They seem to be like "United Fruit" in that they can do no wrong.

[SpiralHawk]

4. The corporate Praetorian Guard

What Evil-Doing has brought this mass arrest on? Only the Shadow knows....