RALEIGH, N.C. — Days after the last U.S. troops left Iraq, a federal appeals court ended a lawsuit over an episode that produced one of the more disturbing images of the war: the grisly killings of four Blackwater security contractors and the hanging of a pair of their bodies from a bridge in Fallujah.
A wrongful death lawsuit linked to a defining moment of the Iraq war has ended with the company formerly known as Blackwater agreeing to settle with the families of four security contractors killed in a gruesome 2004 ambush. The victims’ survivors reached a confidential settlement with the company’s successor, Academi, agreeing to dismiss the case before the Court of Appeals for the ...
The security firm formerly known as Blackwater has agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by six victims or their families in the Sept. 16, 2007 shootings in Baghdad's Nisoor Square, an incident that remains a flashpoint over the use of private contractors in war.Charlotte law firm Lewis & Roberts represented the vicitims and announced the undisclosed settlement in a statement this evening."With respect to the Iraqi families and individuals who were...
Seven years after it was filed, what could have been a landmark lawsuit over battlefield accountability in an era of privatized warfare has been quietly laid to rest.
As a result, the security company formerly known as Blackwater has avoided a public examination of the bloody event that catapulted the company to worldwide attention and changed the course of the Iraq war.
The US private security company formerly known as Blackwater has agreed to settle a wrongful death legal case with the families of four of its contractors killed in a gruesome 2004 ambush that was a defining moment of the Iraq war for the American public.
A community portal about The Iraq War with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The Iraq War, also known as the Second Gulf War, started with the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Subsequent occupation of Saddam Hussein -led Ba'athist Iraq by a United States -led coalition has resulted in ongoing asymmetric warfare between resistance...more
A community portal about The Iraq War with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The Iraq War, also known as the Second Gulf War, started with the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Subsequent occupation of Saddam Hussein -led Ba'athist Iraq by a United States -led coalition has resulted in ongoing asymmetric warfare between resistance forces and coalition forces. The New Iraqi Army was created to replace the old one that was disbanded after the U.S. led invasion. In the midst of fighting between resistance, coalition, and Iraqi forces, sectarian civil war between the majority Shia and minority Sunni populations continues today. The causes and consequences of the war remain controversial.