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Relative of Blackwater victim in Iraq says Trump s pardons of four contractors is unfair - The Virginian-Pilot
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Father of child killed in Iraq massacre says Trump’s Blackwater pardons ‘broke my life again’ Josh Marcus
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Donald Trump’s decision to pardon four former private security contractors involved in a 2007 massacre in Baghdad “broke my life again,” Mohammed Kinani, a US-Iraqi dual citizen whose son was killed, told the BBC. He broke the law. He broke everything. He broke the court. He broke the judge, Mr Kinani said. Before [this] I felt that no-one [was] above the law.
On Tuesday, the president pardoned Nicholas Slatten, Paul Slough, Evan Liberty and Dustin Heard, former contractors at the private security firm Blackwater who were in jail for killing at least 14 Iraqi civilians after firing heavy weapons into Baghdad’s busy Nisoor Square in 2007 while guarding an American diplomatic convoy.
Iraq urges US to reconsider pardons for Blackwater guards
Iraq urges US to reconsider pardons for Blackwater guards
Last Updated: Thu, Dec 24th, 2020, 10:42:05hrs
Baghdad, Dec 24 (IANS) The Iraqi government has urged the US to reconsider its decision of granting pardons to four former contractors of private security company Blackwater who were convicted over the 2007 killing of 14 civilians in Baghdad.
In an official statement on Wednesday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it was following up on US President Donald Trump s decision to pardon the contractors who carried out the massacre September 16, 2007, in Baghdad s al-Nisour Square, which caused international denouncement, reports Xinhua news agency.
Blackwater victim s brother says Trump s pardons unfair
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Trump pardons of Blackwater contractors in killing of Iraqi civilians stir angry response
By Eric Tucker and Ellen Knickmeyer
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FILE - Tribal elder Mohammed Shafi stands in the Yaka Toot cemetary near the grave of Romal, 22, who was killed by Blackwater (now known as Xe) security forces in an incident that enraged area residents.
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WASHINGTON - The courtroom monitors carried the image of a smiling 9-year-old boy as his father pleaded for the punishment of four U.S. government contractors convicted in shootings that killed that child and more than a dozen other Iraqi civilians.
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