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Blackwater denies smuggling weapons

ONGOING PROBE Officials with knowledge of the case said on Friday that US auditors had gathered enough evidence to file charges against the private security contractor

AP , RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA

In a letter to Representative Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Krongard denied that he had refused to cooperate with an investigation into alleged weapons smuggling by a large, unidentified State Department contractor.

Krongard said in a statement that he "made one of my best investigators available to help Assistant US Attorneys in North Carolina in their investigation into alleged smuggling of weapons into Iraq by a contractor."

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