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September 17, 2009

Suit: Gov’t Warned Blackwater on Civilian Deaths Prior to Nisoor Massacre
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The private military firm Blackwater is facing a new lawsuit over the
2007 massacre of seventeen Iraqis in Baghdad’s Nisoor Square. Attorneys
representing the families of several dead victims as well as three
victims wounded in the attack filed the case in North Carolina. The
attorneys say they’ve uncovered evidence Blackwater failed to take
action despite prior government warnings over earlier fatal shootings of
Iraqi civilians. Yesterday marked the Nisoor Square massacre’s second
anniversary.



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