Lawsuit being filed because... why? Innocent Iraqis killed? Or because the contractor is capable of being sued through their nation's legal system?
Blackwater says lawsuit "politically motivated" - Yahoo! News
U.S. military reports from the scene of the shooting indicated Blackwater guards opened fire without provocation and used excessive force. The Iraqi government has accused Blackwater of deliberately killing the 17, and wants Blackwater to pay $8 million in compensation to each victim's family.
The lawsuit, filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights, charged that Blackwater violated U.S. law by committing 'extrajudicial killings and war crimes.'
The legal advocacy group charges that Blackwater 'created and fostered a culture of lawlessness amongst its employees,' and seeks unspecified compensatory damages for death, physical, mental and economic injuries, and punitive damages.
Prince said Blackwater guards responded lawfully after a State Department convoy they were protecting came under small arms fire and there was no 'deliberate murder.'
In the meantime, no lawsuit was filed in the wake of the latest indiscriminate killing by other Iraqis.
Suicide bomber kills six in Iraq checkpoint attack - Yahoo! News
A suicide car bomber killed six members of an anti-al Qaeda tribal police unit when he struck their checkpoint near Baghdad on Monday, police said.
Police said several others were wounded in the attack near Balad, 80 km (50 miles) north of the Iraqi capital. It was the latest attack on members of the Salahuddin Awakenings Council, an alliance of tribes in the Sunni Arab province of Salahuddin opposed to al Qaeda's religious extremism and its indiscriminate killing of civilians.
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