| inbluevt | Date: Saturday, 2013/10/19, 0:25 AM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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Four former guards of the notorious private security firm Blackwater face new manslaughter charges from the US DoJ over a 2007 shooting in Baghdad. The original charges were dropped in 2009, a month before a scheduled trial.
The case was reinstated in 2011, with prosecutors taking a long time to review what charges they could prove in court. The new indictment returned by a grand jury in Washington charges 33
counts, including voluntary manslaughter, attempt to commit manslaughter and using a firearm in a crime of violence.
The guards, Paul Slough, 34, Nicholas Slatten, 29, Evan Liberty, 31, and Dustin Heard, 32, had pleaded not guilty to the initial charges brought against them back in 2008. The initial charges
had been thrown out after a US District Court judge ruled that prosecutors relied on statements that the guards gave under threat of losing their jobs.
Prosecutors said the suspects used a sniper rifle, machine guns and grenades during a September 2007 shooting in Baghdad's Nisur Square. The skirmish left 14 unarmed civilians dead and at least 18 others injured.
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Blackwater Worldwide security guards Evan Liberty (L) and Dustin Heard ® leave the federal courthouse with their legal team and supporters in Washington, January 6, 2009 (Reuters / Jonathan Ernst)
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