Trying To Salvage Remains Of Blackwater Case - NYTimes.com

The Government Is Completely Blowing A Major Blackwater Case
FILE - In this Thursday, Sept. 25, 2007 file photo, an Iraqi traffic policeman inspects a car destroyed by a Blackwater security detail in al-Nisoor Square in Baghdad, Iraq. The U.S. Embassy has confirmed that the security firm once known as Blackwater Worldwide has finished its work in Baghdad on Thursday, May 6, 2009. The company has become a flash point for Iraqi anger after contractors killed 17 civilians in Baghdad in September 2007. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)
FILE - In this Thursday, Sept. 25, 2007 file photo, an Iraqi traffic policeman inspects a car destroyed by a Blackwater security detail in al-Nisoor Square in Baghdad, Iraq. The U.S. Embassy has confirmed that the security firm once known as Blackwater Worldwide has finished its work in Baghdad on Thursday, May 6, 2009. The company has become a flash point for Iraqi anger after contractors killed 17 civilians in Baghdad in September 2007. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)

WASHINGTON — The team of F.B.I. agents arrived in Iraq to investigate a shooting involving a private company that provided security for Americans in a war zone. It was October 2007, and the name of the company — Blackwater Worldwide — did not yet mean anything to the agents. But what they found shocked them.

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