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The Island.lk
December 23, 2017
In 2007, Prince testified defiantly before Congress following the Nisour Square massacre in Baghdad, in which Blackwater operatives gunned down 17 Iraqi civilians, including women and children. Shortly after his testimony, Prince's longtime friend, conservative California Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, praisedÃÂ ...
WhoWhatWhy / RealNewsProject (blog)
September 16, 2017
Seventeen innocent Iraqis were killed and 24 injured in what came to be known as the Nisour Square Massacre. It contributed to the negative Iraqi public opinion toward the allied forces' presence in their country, and to increased backlash and bloodshed. Now the founder and ex-CEO of BlackwaterÃÂ ...
Slate Magazine (blog)
August 30, 2017
Blackwater was heavily involved in the Iraq War, and in September 2007, Blackwater employees shot and killed 17 Iraqis in Baghdad's Nisour Square in what numerous witnesses—including some Blackwater whistleblowers—described as the grotesque, unprovoked massacre of unarmed civilians.
HuffPost
August 10, 2017
Blackwater contractors were accused of “firing wildly into cars stalled in midafternoon traffic at Nisour Square on Sept. ... Indeed, Jeremy Scahill, reporting in 2009 for The Nation on the lawsuit filed on behalf of Iraqis harmed in the Nisour Square massacre, wrote that, according to a former BlackwaterÃÂ ...
Common Dreams
August 4, 2017
A federal appeals court on Friday threw out lengthy prison sentences of three former operatives for private mercenary firm Blackwater Worldwide—and ordered a retrial for a fourth operative who had received a life sentence—for their roles in the notorious 2007 Nisour Square massacre in Baghdad, whichÃÂ ...
The Guardian
April 14, 2015
Three former employees of the US private military contractor once known as Blackwater were sentenced to 30 years in prison on Monday and a fourth received a life sentence, closing a sordid chapter of the Iraq conflict relating to the 2007 Nisour Square massacre in Baghdad. Judge Royce LamberthÃÂ ...
The Nation.
October 30, 2014
This ominous exchange was reported in Jeremy Scahill's 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. Scahill continued to report the Blackwater story for this magazine as the longÃÂ ...
Іnsіdеr Cаr Nеws
December 6, 2017
Trump will shrink Bears Ears National Monument by about 85 percent to 315 square miles, divided into two separate areas. ... of millions of dollars in contracts for his private security company Blackwater in Afghanistan and Iraq, where his guards were convicted in a massacre at Baghdad's Nisour Square.
The Intercept
December 4, 2017
In 2007, Prince testified defiantly before Congress following the Nisour Square massacre in Baghdad, in which Blackwater operatives gunned down 17 Iraqi civilians, including women and children. Shortly after his testimony, Prince's longtime friend, conservative California Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, praisedÃÂ ...
Newsweek
November 30, 2017
Three former employees of Blackwater are serving 30-year jail sentences in relation to the Nisour Square massacre in Baghdad. In 2015, the men were found guilty of a massacre that left 14 Iraqi civilians dead and at least 17 wounded, all of whom were non-combatants. The interview signals a move byÃÂ ...
WhoWhatWhy / RealNewsProject (blog)
September 16, 2017
Seventeen innocent Iraqis were killed and 24 injured in what came to be known as the Nisour Square Massacre. It contributed to the negative Iraqi public opinion toward the allied forces' presence in their country, and to increased backlash and bloodshed. Now the founder and ex-CEO of BlackwaterÃÂ ...
Slate Magazine (blog)
August 30, 2017
Blackwater was heavily involved in the Iraq War, and in September 2007, Blackwater employees shot and killed 17 Iraqis in Baghdad's Nisour Square in what numerous witnesses—including some Blackwater whistleblowers—described as the grotesque, unprovoked massacre of unarmed civilians.
HuffPost
August 10, 2017
Blackwater contractors were accused of “firing wildly into cars stalled in midafternoon traffic at Nisour Square on Sept. ... Indeed, Jeremy Scahill, reporting in 2009 for The Nation on the lawsuit filed on behalf of Iraqis harmed in the Nisour Square massacre, wrote that, according to a former BlackwaterÃÂ ...
The National
August 5, 2017
The men were convicted for their part in the Nisour Square massacre, in which 14 innocent Iraqi civilians were shot dead at a crowded traffic junction in Baghdad in 2007. Slatten, a 33-year-old contractor from Tennessee, is serving a life sentence for his role in the killings, which strained internationalÃÂ ...
The Guardian
April 14, 2015
Three former employees of the US private military contractor once known as Blackwater were sentenced to 30 years in prison on Monday and a fourth received a life sentence, closing a sordid chapter of the Iraq conflict relating to the 2007 Nisour Square massacre in Baghdad. Judge Royce LamberthÃÂ ...
The Nation.
October 30, 2014
This ominous exchange was reported in Jeremy Scahill's 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. Scahill continued to report the Blackwater story for this magazine as the longÃÂ ...
The Canary
September 18, 2017
... killing 14 civilians during the 2007 Nisour Square massacre in Iraq. More recently, Prince has been under investigation for money launderingÃÂ ...
WhoWhatWhy / RealNewsProject (blog)
September 16, 2017
Seventeen innocent Iraqis were killed and 24 injured in what came to be known as the Nisour Square Massacre. It contributed to the negativeÃÂ ...
Alton Telegraph
September 15, 2017
1982 – Lebanon War: The Sabra and Shatila massacre in Lebanon takes ... for Blackwater Worldwide shoot and kill 17 Iraqis in Nisour Square,ÃÂ ...
Daily Times
September 7, 2017
Many war crimes were committed by UK and US in Iraq; the Nisour Square massacre in Baghdad is one such example. The BlackwaterÃÂ ...
RollingStone.com
August 31, 2017
In Iraq, his contractors were responsible for a veritable reign of terror, culminating in the Nisour Square massacre in September 2007. EscortingÃÂ ...
Slate Magazine (blog)
August 30, 2017
(The massacre was an extreme but not isolated incident: In 2007, the ... the Nisour Square "atrocity," while another is awaiting retrial for murder.
Gulf Today
August 13, 2017
The administration's attitude towards this long forgotten massacre could ... Before the Nisour Square incident, Blackwater operatives had beenÃÂ ...
Workers World
August 13, 2017
... ordered a new trial for a Blackwater mercenary convicted of murder for his part in the massacre of 14 civilians at Nisour Square in Baghdad,ÃÂ ...
HuffPost
August 10, 2017
Indeed, Jeremy Scahill, reporting in 2009 for The Nation on the lawsuit filed on behalf of Iraqis harmed in the Nisour Square massacre, wroteÃÂ ...
Financial Tribune
August 9, 2017
... Paul Slough, Dustin Heard and Evan Liberty – were found guilty in the 2007 massacre of civilians in Nisour Square in Baghdad, RT reported.
The Intercept
August 9, 2017
Now I covered the Nisour Square massacre extensively, particularly the life and death that day of the youngest victim at Nisour Square,ÃÂ ...
RT
August 8, 2017
... retrial of Nicholas Slatten, a Blackwater security guard charged and convicted of being involved in a massacre in Baghdad's Nisour Square inÃÂ ...
Mintpress News (blog)
August 7, 2017
... by a Blackwater security detail in al-Nisoor Square in Baghdad, Iraq. ... in the notorious 2007 Nisour Square massacre in Baghdad, which leftÃÂ ...
The National
August 5, 2017
The men were convicted for their part in the Nisour Square massacre, in which 14 innocent Iraqi civilians were shot dead at a crowded trafficÃÂ ...
Odessa American
August 5, 2017
... federal prosecutors and defense lawyer presented very different versions of what triggered the September 2007 massacre in Nisour Square.
Common Dreams
August 5, 2017
... and ordered a retrial for a fourth former operative who was sentenced to life in prison, for their roles in the 2007 Nisour Square massacre.
Capital & Conflict
July 28, 2017
The Nisour Square massacre, where contractors from Blackwater opened fire on unarmed civilians and killed 17, brought the issue ofÃÂ ...
POLITICO Magazine
July 20, 2017
... through the political fallout from a 2007 massacre of civilians in Iraq) and ... contractors killed 17 Iraqi civilians in Nisour Square in Baghdad.
The American Conservative
July 17, 2017
... his Marines into the city in “Operation Vigilant Resolve”) and for the deaths of 20 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad (the “Nisour Square Massacre”) inÃÂ ...
ThinkProgress
July 11, 2017
... his cab at Baghdad's Nisoor square over a year later, when Blackwater ... people and injured 20 others in the 2007 Nisour Square massacre.
World Socialist Web Site
July 10, 2017
It goes on to cite the infamous 2007 Nisour Square massacre in Baghdad, in which mercenary gunmen employed by the major US militaryÃÂ ...
The Guardian
April 14, 2015
Former Blackwater guards sentenced for massacre of unarmed Iraqi ... Iraq conflict relating to the 2007 Nisour Square massacre in Baghdad.
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.
Sunbury News
December 31, 1999
Indeed, Jeremy Scahill, reporting in 2009 for The Nation on the lawsuit filed on behalf of Iraqis harmed in the Nisour Square massacre, wroteÃÂ ...
Sputnik International
December 31, 1999
The most infamous was the Nisour Square massacre, when contractors opened fire on a crowd of civilians in Baghdad, killing 17; it led to courtÃÂ ...
Asia Times
March 26, 2017
Nonetheless, two anniversaries of American disasters and crimes abroad - the "mission accomplished" debacle of 2003 and the 45th anniversary of the My Lai massacre - were at least noted in passing in our world. .... the post-9/11 era of American ...
EconoTimes
February 21, 2017
They still remember the infamous 2007 Nisour Square massacre in which Blackwater operatives opened fire and killed 17 Iraqi civilians.
International Business Times
February 17, 2017
Newly-minted Education Secretary Betsy DeVos' brother, former Navy SEAL Erik Prince, may be breaking federal law by providing military training services to Chinese paramilitary forces, BuzzFeed reported Thursday night.
De Limburger
February 16, 2017
Hun getuigenissen zijn cruciaal bij de reconstructie van het Nisour Square Massacre. Zeven jaar later, op woensdag 12 november 2014, zijn de agenten van het bureau aan Al-Nisour niet alleen getuige van een nieuwe slachting, maar vormen ze er ook hetÃÂ ...
DeSmog (blog)
February 15, 2017
... same group of private military contractors who have profited from the attack on peaceful protesters at Standing Rock and who have direct ties to the mercenary group Blackwater and the Nisour Square Massacre in which 17 Iraqi civilians and Iraqi ...
Bustle
February 3, 2017
In 2007, four Blackwater Worldwide guards killed 14 Iraqi civilians in what is now known as the Nisour Square Massacre. The men were sentenced to 30 years and life in prison in 2015.
Opposing Views
January 19, 2017
Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater, a security firm that killed unarmed civilians during the Iraq War, is reportedly advising President-elect Donald Trump (video below).
Knoxville News Sentinel
January 17, 2017
Federal prosecutors said the four, who were guarding a diplomatic envoy, opened fire from an armored convoy "upon a sudden quarrel and heat of passion" on unarmed civilians in traffic in the city's Nisour Square. The men claimed self-defense after a ...
Digital Journal
January 14, 2017
In Iraq Blackwater became embroiled in controversy after what is called the Nissour Square Massacre: On September 16, 2007, employees of Blackwater Security Consulting, a private military company, shot at Iraqi civilians killing 17 and injuring 20 in ...
