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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Legal News: U.S. to Drop Shooting Case Against Blackwater Guard

Filed under: Iraq,Legal News — Tags: , , , — Matt @ 8:55 AM

The trial likely will hinge on whether the Blackwater guards were provoked. Iraqi witnesses say Blackwater fired the only shots. Some members of the Blackwater convoy said they saw gunfire. Others said they didn’t. Radio logs of the shooting indicate the guards were fired on. 

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     Yep, that is my thoughts on this too.  These men were operating in a war zone, and if in fact they were fired upon, then I think the prosecution does not have a case.  Instead, they will have to fall back on the BS anti-machine gun law to do any kind of damage to these men.  My guess is that this will end up just like the Haditha case, with the Marines. This is war, and to prove that these men decided to wake up one day, go on a convoy operation and deviate from the mission to purposely kill innocent people unprovoked, is a stretch. Not to mention the radio logs, the bullet holes in the vehicles and bullets in people and things.  We will see how it goes, and I truly hope for a fair trial for these guys.  God knows, everyone else has already convicted them of a crime in the court of public opinion.-Matt

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US to drop shooting case against Blackwater guard

By MATT APUZZO

Nov 20, 2009

WASHINGTON – The Justice Department intends to drop manslaughter and weapons charges against one of the Blackwater Worldwide security guards involved in a deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting, prosecutors said in court documents Friday.

The shooting in busy Nisoor Square left 17 Iraqis dead and inflamed anti-American sentiment abroad. It touched off a string of investigations that ultimately led the State Department to cancel the company’s lucrative contract to guard diplomats in Iraq.

Iraqis have said they’re watching closely to see how the U.S. judicial system handles the five men accused of unleashing an unprovoked attack on civilians with machine guns and grenades.

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Thursday, May 1, 2008

News: Guard at US Base ‘Stranded’ in Qatar after Being Sacked

Filed under: News,Qatar — Tags: , , , , — Matt @ 9:43 AM

     This really sucks for Mr. Dupont and others, and I hope they come out on top in this.  Hopefully, the negative attention placed on Dyncorp with this, will force them to re-write contracts and to be more honest with future employees.  There have been so many incidents like this in the past with Dyncorp and on that contract.  It is really sad.  To me, if a man or woman agrees to put their life on the line for that company and on that contract, then the company at least should have the integrity to be truthful and straight up with those future employees.  -Head Jundi   

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Guard at US base ‘stranded’ in Qatar after being sacked

Wednesday, 30 April, 2008, 02:28 AM Doha Time
 
By K T Chacko
AN AMERICAN security guard recruited by DynCorp International to serve at the As Sayliyah base has been “stranded” in Qatar for over a year after he was sacked by his employers in April 2007.
Christopher Dupont has since challenged his termination in a Doha court but he has been left with no job and therefore no money to sustain himself. “My daughter in the US had to drop out of college and start working to support me,” he told Gulf Times.
DynCorp International is a US-based private military contractor and aircraft maintenance company, which, according to sources, receives more than 96% of its $2bn in annual revenues from the federal government.
Narrating his plight to Gulf Times, Dupont said he had high hopes when he signed the employment contract with DynCorp International in the US and wanted to serve in Qatar for at least five years.
“But things started to fall apart as I arrived here in October 2006. I was forced to sign an employment contract in which the emoluments were less than what had been promised and agreed in the US. (more…)

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