Ex-Blackwater guard indicted on murder charge for Iraq shooting
Source: Reuters
(Reuters) - A grand jury has charged a former Blackwater Worldwide security guard with murder for his alleged role in a 2007 shooting of unarmed civilians in Baghdad, according to an indictment made public on Friday.
A federal appeals court last month effectively ended a manslaughter case against the guard, Nicholas Slatten, but prosecutors had signaled they might seek a new indictment against him.
The indictment comes just weeks before three other former Blackwater guards are scheduled to face trial on manslaughter charges over the deaths of 14 Iraqis killed as the guards accompanied a State Department convoy through Baghdad's Nisur Square.
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He told people he wanted to "kill as many Iraqis as he could as 'payback for 9/11'," and boasted of killing an old Iraqi woman who had a knife in her hand because she had been chopping vegetables, prosecutors said.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/09/us-usa-iraq-blackwater-idUSBREA480PA20140509
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co conspirators in this crime. But we do know who they are.
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