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Judge drops charges against Blackwater guards accused of massacre
In a rebuke to government prosecutors, a federal judge dismissed criminal charges against five Blackwater security guards accused of fatally shooting 14 people in Baghdad in September 2007. Judge Ricardo Urbina said on Thursday prosecutors violated the defendants’ rights by using incriminating statements they had made under immunity during a…
Judge dismisses charges against Blackwater defendants
WASHINGTON (AFP) – In a rebuke to government prosecutors, a federal judge dismissed criminal charges against five Blackwater security guards accused of fatally shooting 14 people in Baghdad in September 2007. Judge Ricardo Urbina said on Thursday prosecutors violated the defendants’ rights by using incriminating statements they had made under…
Judge won’t dismiss war crimes suit against Blackwater
A federal judge’s ruling Wednesday won’t shutter a war crimes suit against the security contracting firm formerly known as Blackwater, despite the fact that lawyers must refile their claims against the company. 64 Iraqis — including the estates of 19 who died — have sued the company, now called Xe,…
Rebranding won’t help: bloody Blackwater is now ‘Xe’
With a record in Iraq of uncontrolled violence as a U.S. security contractor, NC-based Blackwater Worldwide decided it needed a facelift, as if a name-change would wash away its record. Bzzzzzt. Blackwater Worldwide, the contractor that emerged over the last few years as Exhibit A for ugly Americans in Iraq,…
Bringing out my inner (small-l) libertarian
My favorite Netroots Nation booth There’s not a single item in this article that doesn’t make me stuff-throwing, puppy-kicking angry. Federal agents raided a Culver City medical marijuana dispensary and spent more than four hours there, making no arrests but leaving the shop in disarray, it was reported Friday. Nice…
Without comment
Aftermath of a crime: “I am ready to sign a deal [with Blackwater] in exchange for an admission of the crime and an apology,” Mohammed Hafidh Abdul-Razzaq, a car spare-parts dealer from Baghdad, told the BBC. “This is important for me, morally, for my family and my tribe.” He said…
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