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Blog Entries by Jeremy Scahill from 04/2008

An Iraqi Translator Gets Prosecuted While Blackwater Gets Another Year in Iraq

| Posted 04.06.2008 | Politics
Read More: Iraq Contractors, Nisour Square, Saddam Hussein, Private Contractors, Iraq, Blackwater, Iraq War, Alaa Mohammad Ali, Iraq War Contractors, Private Security Contractors, Blackwater Iraq, Iraq Blackwater Contract, Blackwater USA, Blackwater Investigation, Politics News

Despite the fact that contractors now outnumber US soldiers in Iraq, there have to date only been two prosecutions of private personnel.

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Confronting Blackwater on its Killing of Iraqis

| Posted 04.08.2008 | Politics
Read More: Nisour Square, Video, Iraq, Blackwater, Iraq War, Blackwater Martin Strong, Erik Prince, Blackwater Iraq, Defense Contractors, Blackwater USA, Erik Prince Blackwater, Politics News

I confronted the vice president of Blackwater on their killing of 17 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad in Sept. 2007. The day after, the Bush administration extended Blackwater's Iraq "security" contract for another year.

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