Ex-Blackwater contractor sentenced to life in Iraq shootings ~ News On The Keyboard

Kamis, 15 Agustus 2019

Ex-Blackwater contractor sentenced to life in Iraq shootings

Agustus 15, 2019 RAS Kamandanu No comments

A former Blackwater security contractor was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison for his role in the 2007 shooting of unarmed civilians in Iraq that left 14 people dead. Federal judge Royce Lamberth issued the sentence after a succession of friends and relatives requested leniency for Nicholas Slatten, who was found guilty of first-degree murder by a jury in December. Prosecutors charged that Slatten, 35, was the first to fire shots in the September 2007 massacre of Iraqi civilians at a crowded traffic circle in Baghdad.