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| | Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Group 4 security firm pulls guards out of West Bank |
 | | The security conglomerate Group 4 Falck, which pioneered the private contracting of detention facilities and prisons in Britain, has decided to withdraw the private guards employed by one of its offshoots at Israeli settlements in the West Bank after the Guardian raised questions about their behaviour and the legality of their role. |
 | | Group 4 Falck, based in Denmark, paid $30m in March for a 50% stake in Hashmira, Israel's largest private security company. |
 | | Group 4 Falck asserts that it works ethically, "both nationally and internationally on the basis of principles regarding such issues as human rights, racism and child labour". |
| www.guardian.co.uk /international/story/0,3604,807093,00.html (1263 words) |
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