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| Judge dismisses all charges in Blackwater shooting |
| 2009-12-31 |
| A federal judge has dismissed all charges against five Blackwater Worldwide security guards charged in a deadly Baghdad shooting. U.S. District Judge Ricardo Urbina said Thursday the Justice Department overstepped its bounds and wrongly used evidence it was not allowed to see. He said the government's explanations have been contradictory, unbelievable and not credible. Blackwater contractors were hired to guard State Department diplomats in Iraq. Prosecutors say the guards fired on unarmed civilians in a busy intersection in 2007, killing innocent people. After the shooting, the guards gave statements to State Department investigators. Prosecutors were not allowed to use those statements in the case. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose |
| #4 Congratats to the five. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2009-12-31 22:24 |
| #3 Words fail me. I hope these five guys can put their lives back together because this has to have been as bad as combat, but it lasts a lot longer. And I hope Ridgeway gets hard time. He's pled for it. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2009-12-31 19:58 |
| #2 "government's explanations have been contradictory, unbelievable and not credible" Explanations, hell. That's a description of our present gummint itself. >:-( |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2009-12-31 19:47 |
| #1 Hear, hear. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-12-31 17:06 |