A real chance for accountability for private security contractors …
Filed Under (Blackwater/Xe Blog Posts) by webmaster on 02-06-2010
The Amnesty International USA Web Log Visit us, Subscribe … Federal Judge Ricardo Urbina dismissed the charges against the five Xe (Blackwater) guards accused in the shooting death of at least 14 innocent Iraqi civilians in Nisour Square in September 2007. While his decision indicates the need to examine more closely the conduct of the Justice Department’s prosecutors as well as the State Department’s practice of immunizing contractors’ statements given in the course of …
