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President Donald Trump on Tuesday pardoned four men convicted in connection with a massacre of civilians in Iraq in 2007.
The Blackwater guards Nicholas Slatten, Paul Slough, Evan Liberty, and Dustin Heard opened fire in a busy section of Baghdad, resulting in the unjustified deaths of 14 civilians, including two children.
The youngest victim was a 9-year-old boy named Ali Mohammed Hafedh Abdul Razzaq.
A top Democratic senator decried the pardons as a "disgrace," and an Iraqi man who was shot in the incident questioned why he bothered testifying against the men.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced a slew of pardons, including those of four former Blackwater guards convicted of crimes associated with the 2007 killing of 14 unarmed Iraqi civilians, including two children ages 9 and 11.