Blackwater security guard convicted in 2007 mass shooting of Iraqi civilians

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

A former Blackwater security guard was convicted on Wednesday for his role in the 2007 shooting of several unarmed Iraqi civilians, the U.S. attorney's office in Washington, D.C., said.

The attorney's office announced that a jury found Nicholas Slatten, 35, guilty of first-degree murder for his role in what became one of the U.S. military's lowest points in the Iraq War.

It was the third time since 2014 that Slatten was on trial for the incident. His 2014 conviction was overturned on appeal, and a judge earlier this year declared a mistrial in Slatten's retrial after the jury could not reach a unanimous decision.

Prosecutors said that on the afternoon of Sept. 16, 2007, Slatten and a few other then-Blackwater security guards opened fire near a busy traffic circle in Baghdad, killing 14 civilians and injuring 18 others. The deceased included 10 men, two women and two young boys.

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/422109-blackwater-security-guard-convicted-in-2007-mass-shooting-of-iraqi-civilians

[raccoon]

1. Gosh, and we were told they'd be welcoming us as "liberators". :sarcasm: nt

[malaise]

2. Very good

The ahead of Blackwater should be in prison

[gratuitous]

3. As should the people that hired these mercenaries

Eleven years later, and the tiniest sliver of justice for these victims.

[Ilsa]

4. I wish those animals that gang raped that

Young woman (I think she was nonmilitary) to the point where she had to have her reproductive organs removed had to face justice. That beat her, too, and nearly killed her.