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BLACKWATER SHOOTINGS IN JUSTICE’S HANDS

Topic: Postwar Reconstruction, News & Comment, Federal Agencies, Contracting and contractors, Dept. of Justice
29. November 2007
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National Public Radio’s Dina Temple-Raston reports that the Justice Department’s is testing various U.S. criminal statutes to see if they apply to the Blackwater guards who killed 16 people in Baghdad’s Mansour Square on Sept. 16, 2007. Temple-Raston quotes a former U.S. attorney saying that Justice may have to "shoehorn" the incident into a law that just doesn’t fit.  [Get story]

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