Home

Share

From this page you can share Iraqi Victims of Blackwater Shooting Await Trial With Guarded Hope to a social bookmarking site or email a link to the page.
Social WebE-mail
Enter multiple addresses on separate lines or separate them with commas.
Iraqi Victims of Blackwater Shooting Await Trial With Guarded Hope
(Your Name) has forwarded an article to you from CommonDreams.org: Iraqi Victims of Blackwater Shooting Await Trial With Guarded Hope

(Your Name) forwarded this article to you from CommonDreams.org.

Sign up here if you would like to receive daily news from CommonDreams.org.

Iraqi Victims of Blackwater Shooting Await Trial With Guarded Hope

Abdul Amir Rahim shows a picture of his wounds during a meeting with a U.S. prosecutors to discuss the case against the Blackwater Worldwide guards indicted in the fatal September 2007 shooting in the Baghdad's Nisoor Square, in Baghdad, Saturday, Dec. 13, 2008. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

BAGHDAD - Iraqis wounded by gunfire in a Baghdad square 15 months ago are awaiting with guarded hopes the beginning of court proceedings against five former private Blackwater Worldwide security guards.

The five men are to appear in a federal court in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday for an initial hearing on charges of manslaughter in the chaotic few minutes of shooting on Sept. 16, 2007 that killed 17 Iraqi civilians and wounded dozens more.

Posted in blackwater, Equality/Justice, Iraq