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01 Jan 2010 11:55

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World: Blackwater bull*#^@: Iraqis stunned by U.S. court decision

  • What are we — not human? Why do they have the right to kill people? Is our blood so cheap? For America, the land of justice and law, what does it mean to let criminals go? They were chasing me and shooting at me. They were determined to kill me.
  • Blackwater victim Abdul Wahab Adul Khader • On his anger with a decision by a U.S. federal court to dismiss criminal charges against the company, which shot him in the hand in an attack on Sept. 16, 2007. The attack left 17 dead and 27 wounded. Many Iraqis interviewed were in disbelief by the decision, which some referred to as the continuation of a cover-up. source