US District Judge Ricardo Urbina today ordered all charges dropped against five former Blackwater contractors accused of roles in a 2007 Baghdad massacre, determining that the Justice Department had improperly handled evidence and provided implausible explanations for its errors.
The 90 page ruling emphasized that the end to the case was not on lack of merit, but rather because of procedural problems by the prosecution. The Justice Department could appeal the decision, but has not said whether it intends to do so.
In the September attack, the Blackwater contractors opened fire on a crowd of unarmed Iraqi civilians, killing 17. One of the contractors later bragged, according to court documents, that the killings were “revenge for September 11.”
Yet the defense lawyers maintained that they were acting in “self defense” and declared today’s ruling as vindication of the American justice system. A sixth Blackwater employee agreed to a plea deal in return for testimony.
Incroyable!
Deliberate provocation to keep the supply of "Terrrorists" coming to retaliate. This then is how the USA will justify its wars overseas, and keep our population in fear.
Was the latest plane bomb attempt really as it was portrayed, or another enhanced performance utilising a gullible young man understandably resentful of our invasions.
Wait for the next Pearl Harbor/911
or at least some sort of unknowing naievata`(?)packaged unknowingly in a real nice speech,comment or BLOG,the silence speaks volumes,chapters,encyclopedias,apeareintly the goonbots are still digesting the reams of puke vommit horseshot & data,not even an offical postit on the seal of the100 year vulture,tweet,woof,meow
yeah the evdeince no one can see was of course mis-handjobed,nice unbiased "justice system ya can smell it from,well not thair little buddy,isn't thair video or was it also OO,"mis-handjobed,well thats that, move along except now it's Karzai's turn,maybe a fair trial could be sold to the lowest nuetral common bidder or capitalistic de-nomanator
Try english Jack, or is it not your first language?
Corazon
A travesty of justice at this point. Let's pressure DOJ to appeal this absurd ruling.
as for israel so with america the judiciary is a cloak for tyranny.
if iraq is a sovereign state then extradite them and let an iraqi court deal with a civilian crime in their country
I guess due process is only important if its used for people that progressives like.
Whoops, I did it again! Bungled a case I really wasn't interested in prosecuting. Welp, all's well that ends well!
The timing of this is no coincidence… It hit last night around 7pm EST, so all the network news were rambling about new years eve celebrations and just barely mentioning this.. Now watch today, nothing mentioned about it on the MSM.
Blackwater is not the US army Its a army of american mercenaries , or hired guns , guys that dont mind shooting people for good pay . Not a military force I'am proud of . But these are not the first young guys that have made mistakes when carrying guns . Doesnt sound good , but this is what happends when you are occuping a foreign countries people .
ERIC THESE MEN ARE KILLING SCUM AND SENDING THEM TOO THEIR VIRGENS I AM PROUD OF THEM MERCS ARE OUR GREATEST ASSET IN SCUM VILLE