Contractors in Iraq could face charges in earlier incidents

[babylonsister]

Source: McClatchy

Contractors in Iraq could face charges in earlier incidents

By Nancy A. Youssef | McClatchy Newspapers


WASHINGTON — Private security contractors operating in Iraq could face Iraqi prosecution for acts committed when they supposedly had immunity from Iraqi law, U.S. officials said Thursday.

A new U.S.-Iraq security agreement doesn't specifically prevent Iraqi officials from bringing criminal charges retroactively in cases such as the September 2007 shooting deaths of 17 Iraqi civilians by contractors protecting a State Department convoy, officials told security company officials during meetings in Washington Thursday.

The news caught company officials by surprise.

"We are still trying to make sense of it," said Anne E. Tyrrell, a spokeswoman for Blackwater Inc., whose security guards have been involved in some of the most controversial incidents in Iraq, including the Sept. 16, 2007, shooting at al Nisoor Square in Baghdad.


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[OKNancy]

1. duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=3611729

[babylonsister]

2. I don't think they are the same. That link says they could lose immunity,

this one says they could be in trouble despite previous immunity.

[saigon68]

3. Thugs and Murderers sucking up the taxpayers $$$$$$

remember the rose petal parade for these thugs

[JimboBillyBubbaBob]

4. A Song

In the late sixties there was a cartoon about a character called 'Superchicken.' In the theme song was a line that said "...you knew the job was dangerous when you took it." I have no pity for these mercenaries.

[Hissyspit]

5. God, I loved Superchicken when I was a kid. He was my favorite.