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BAGHDAD, Jan 2, (AFP) -Iraq said on Friday it regretted the decision of a US judge to dismiss criminal charges against five Blackwater security guards accused of fatally shooting 14 people in Baghdad ...

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This is not the first time that U.S. private mercenaries have been hired to provide assistance to U.S. military invasions. Blackwater, a private mercenary company also headquartered in North Carolina, ...

RALEIGH, N.C. -Days after the last U.S. troops left Iraq, a federal appeals court ended a lawsuit over an episode that produced one of the more disturbing images of the war: the grisly killings of ...

On a hot as hell September 16, 2007, Blackwater mercenaries hired by the State Department as security killed 17 Iraqi civilians—including two children—and injured 20 in Nisour Square ...

Earlier the Iraqi government had accused a US based security company, Blackwater, of ‘deliberately’ killing 17 Iraqi civilians on September 16 in Western Bagdad. A statement issued to the ...

But the higher profile brought more scrutiny. In 2007, Blackwater came under intense criticism after company employees opened fire on Iraqi civilians in Baghdad, killing 17 and injuring almost two ...