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January 8, 2010

Blackwater, Iraqi Victims Reach Financial Settlement
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The news broke just hours after it was revealed Blackwater had reached a
settlement for the shootings of around seventy Iraqis. Blackwater is
reportedly paying $100,000 for each of the Iraqis killed by its forces
and between $20-30,000 to each Iraqi wounded. News of the settlement
came a week after a federal judge dismissed manslaughter charges against
five Blackwater operatives involved in the Nisoor Square massacre that
killed seventeen Iraqi civilians.



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