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FILE – In this July 5, 2005 file photo, a private contractor gestures to their colleagues flying over in a helicopter as they secure the scene of a roadside bomb attack. Iraqi authorities arrested a British contractor on murder charges over the shooting deaths early Sunday Aug 9, 2009, of a British and an Australian contractor in Baghdad’s protected Green Zone. The suspected gunman could be the first Westerner to face an Iraqi trial on murder charges since a new security pact took effect on Jan 1, 2009. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)