Blackwater gunned down Iraqi civilians as they tried to flee, US says as case goes to jury

[unhappycamper]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/27/blackwater-gunned-down-iraqi-civilians-as-they-tried-to-flee-us-says-as-case-goes-to-jury/



Blackwater gunned down Iraqi civilians as they tried to flee, US says as case goes to jury
By Reuters
Wednesday, August 27, 2014 15:29 EDT
By Aruna Viswanatha

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Four former security guards for Blackwater Worldwide “took something that didn’t belong to them, the lives of 14 human beings,” in September 2007 when they fired on civilians in a Baghdad traffic circle, a U.S. prosecutor told jurors on Wednesday.

Several victims were shot in the back as they tried to flee, federal prosecutor Anthony Asuncion noted. Summing up the government’s case against the guards, he also recounted the testimony of relatives who had given emotional accounts of their loved ones’ gory deaths.

Asuncion began closing arguments by painting the ex-security guards as cold-blooded killers who unleashed firepower on Iraqi civilians who posed no threat.

The shootings at Nisur Square, four years into the Iraq war, sparked international outrage. The guards were trying to secure a path for a State Department convoy.

[JustAnotherGen]

1. Reuters does a disservice

When they don't put Academi in the Headline. No mention of who owned it and what he is doing now?

No mention of how they came to be there?

No mention of the absurd profits made by Cheney?

No mention of their threats to officials?

Blackwater did exactly what it was hired to do and PMC's are still at playin foreign military affairs. Iraq only ejected Blackwater - not its' third incarnation.