Politics

State Dept. Helped Blackwater Guards 'Avoid Punishment': Report

When the prosecution of five Blackwater guards over the 2007 Nisoor Square massacre in Baghdad fell apart in December, it was largely blamed on the State Department's granting of immunity to guards who spoke with State officials. Now, newly released court documents show an official at the US embassy in Iraq believed that was more than a mistake on the State Department's part. Department officials had "sought to block any serious investigation" of the massacre that took the lives of 17 Iraqi civilians, the New York Times reports.
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Posted by Editor at March 5, 2010 01:32 AM