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Shadowproof (blog)
April 10, 2018
The company was founded by Erik Prince and responsible for the Nisour Square massacre in Baghdad in 2007, which killed 17 people and wounded 20 people.) *. That brings us to those who support Haspel but often side with The Resistance™ to President Trump. Mike Morell, a former CIA director,Ãâà...
Face2Face Africa
April 4, 2018
What have we done? Let's be honest, Ghana has had a long-standing relationship with the United States; whether it was the Atlantic slave trade that saw many Ghanaians enslaved by European slave traders, and forcibly shipped into the “New World” to slave in horrible conditions; whether it be with tens ofÃâà...
The Rensselaer Polytechnic
April 2, 2018
Those mercenaries were part of an organization known as Blackwater Security Company—a corporation which has since been renamed twice in an effort to distance itself from what came to be known as the Nisour Square Massacre. After a member of the convoy pled guilty in exchange for immunity, fiveÃâà...
The Real News Network
March 21, 2018
And so, sensing that, you know, these bombs will bomb Iraq back into the middle of the Middle Ages, and probably massacre thousands, like 100,000 .... And they've not been held accountable if they were security forces like Blackwater that in that massacred innocent Iraqis like in Nisour Square or just theÃâà...
Shareblue Media
March 8, 2018
He's also the founder of the defense contractor Blackwater, a company infamous for the 2007 Nisour Square massacre in Baghdad. Blackwater contractors fired machine guns and grenade launchers into a crowd of civilians from an armored personnel vehicle, killing 17 and injuring 20. Prince fled theÃâà...
Socialist Worker Online
March 5, 2018
While millions marched against the invasion and occupation of Iraq on false pretenses, the U.S. government is busy handing out massive contracts to Blackwater, a private military force responsible for the Nisour Square massacre, while convictions against these mercenaries are thrown out or overturned.
The Tennessean
August 17, 2017
The site features a timeline of what unfolded in Nisour Square and calls into question key parts of the government's case, including ballistics evidence and the lack of physical evidence linking many of the alleged victims to the scene. More: Trump White House weighs unprecedented plan to privatize muchÃâà...
New York Times
August 4, 2017
The ruling is a setback to the effort — which now stretches across three presidential administrations — to demand stiff consequences for the shooting in Baghdad's Nisour Square. Along with the massacre by Marines of 24 Iraqi civilians at Haditha and the abuses of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison,Ãâà...
The Guardian
April 14, 2015
“None of the victims was an insurgent, or posed any threat to the Raven 23 convoy,” the government said, in a sentencing memorandum filed to the ... that the justice system has completed its investigation into a tragedy that occurred at Nisour Square in 2007 and that any wrongdoing that was carried outÃâà...
The Nation.
October 30, 2014
Accountability for the massacre in Iraq is a start—but we should also be talking about reducing reliance on private military contractors. ... Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, published by Nation Books after news had spread of the Nisour Square massacre around the world.
New York Times
October 22, 2014
While the company's security guards were involved in scores of shootings in Iraq, it was the 2007 incident in Nisour Square that helped cement ... Susan L. Burke, a lawyer who represented Iraqi victims in a lawsuit against Blackwater, said the conviction sent a message to the world about the power ofÃâà...
Center for Research on Globalization
December 31, 1999
(Note: Black once worked for the mercenary company Blackwater in 2005, which obtained a contract to provide security for United States personnel in Iraq. The company was founded by Erik Prince and responsible for the Nisour Square massacre in Baghdad in 2007, which killed 17 people and woundedÃâà...
Mintpress News
December 31, 1999
(Note: Black once worked for the mercenary company Blackwater in 2005, which obtained a contract to provide security for United States personnel in Iraq. The company was founded by Erik Prince and responsible for the Nisour Square massacre in Baghdad in 2007, which killed 17 people and woundedÃâà...
The Diplomat
December 31, 1999
The killing of innocent civilians by U.S. contractors in Iraq — incidents like the Nisour Square massacre perpetrated by Blackwater employees in 2007 — severely undermined the U.S. Army's efforts to win the heart and minds of the local population. Similarly, possible carnage involving the killing of innocentÃâà...
The National Interest Online
December 31, 1999
Four Blackwater personnel were also responsible for the massacre of seventeen Iraqi civilians in Bagdad's Nisour Square in 2007. The delay in bringing them to trial in the United States created a great deal of anger within Iraq and provided a powerful rallying cry for Islamic extremists. The emergence of theÃâà...
