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Iraqis Not Surprised by US Pardon of Blackwater Killers Dima Abumaria 12/23/2020
Military contractors convicted in 2007 Nisour Square massacre go free, but ordinary Iraqis more concerned about political upheaval in their own country.
US President Donald Trump pardoned the four former American security contractors convicted in US federal court in the 2007 killing of 14 unarmed Iraqi civilians, including two children, in Baghdad.
They were part of a wave of pardons issued Tuesday by Trump, made in the final days of his presidency.
The four men, employees of the private military company Blackwater Security Consulting (now Academi), were escorting a US embassy convoy when they fired into a crowd of Iraqis, killing 17 and wounding 20.