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Kroll pulls security teams out of Iraq.

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NEW YORK (AFX) - Security company Kroll has withdrawn its bodyguard teams from Iraq and Afghanistan after it lost four workers in Iraq, its parent company said Wednesday.

Michael G. Cherkasky, president and chief executive of Kroll owner Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc., told The Associated Press that the business in the two countries wasn't worth risking the lives of their employees.

In its third-quarter earnings statement issued Wednesday, Marsh & McLennan said that "results for the security group reflected the orderly exit from high-risk ...

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