Steroids may have complicated Blackwater shooting: Lawsuit
CNN reports, “There are also new allegations that Blackwater security guards are on steroids. A civil suit on behalf of victims of a September shooting in Baghdad say that a quarter of Blackwater’s guards in Iraq are on steroids and other judgement altering drugs and that steroids could have played a part in that shooting. The suit also accuses them of ignoring a direct order and abandoning their post before the shooting. Blackwater says that it’s employees are banned from using steroids or any performance enhancing drugs but declined to comment on the other charges. 17 Iraqi civilians died in that September shooting.”
The Associated Press has more details HERE.
This video is from CNN’s American Morning, broadcast on November 28, 2007.
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