BAGHDAD — The Iraqi government approved a draft law Tuesday to lift immunity for foreign security companies including Blackwater USA in a bid to overturn a decree imposed more than three years ago by the U.S. official who ran the country after the invasion.
Meanwhile, the monthly toll of U.S. servicemen who have died in Iraq is on track to being the lowest in nearly two years, with at least 36 troop deaths recorded as of Tuesday, but the military cautioned it's too early to declare a long-term trend.
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has promised to pushthrough the proposed legislation amid public anger over the killing of 17 Iraqis last month, as well as other Iraqi civilian deaths purportedly at the hands of foreign contractors.
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