Security contractors accused of killing civilians to be retried

[Judi Lynn]

Source: CNN

Security contractors accused of killing civilians to be retried
By the CNN Wire Staff
March 1, 2011 2:50 a.m. EST

(CNN) -- Jury selection begins Tuesday in the retrial of two U.S. security contractors accused of killing two Afghanistan civilians.

In September, a federal judge declared a mistrial in the case against Christopher Drotleff and Justin Cannon after the jury in the case said they were unable to reach a unanimous verdict.

Drotleff and Cannon worked as security contractors for a subsidiary of Xe, the military contracting firm formerly known as Blackwater Worldwide.

Each were charged with two counts of second-degree murder and one count of attempted murder in connection with a May 2009 shooting in Kabul, Afghanistan.



Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/03/01/us.contractor.retrial/index.html

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Christopher Drotleff, Justin Cannon

[OnyxCollie]

1. K&R.

[joshcryer]

2. Shame that Bush killed our ICC involvement (not that Clinton gave it much effort).