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20over%20deadly%20shootout
Iraq could try Blackwater over deadly shootout
Baghdad, Sept 18: A top Iraqi judge said on Tuesday that US security
firm Blackwater could go on trial over a deadly shootout in Baghdad,
as Washington sought to cool tensions over the incident.
"This company is subject to Iraqi law and the crime committed was on
Iraqi territory and the Iraqi judiciary is responsible for tackling
the case," said Abdul sattar Ghafour Bairaqdar from Iraq's Supreme
Judiciary Council, the country's highest court.
Iraq's Interior ministry yesterday ordered the cancellation of
Blackwater's operating licence after its guards who were escorting us
embassy officials were involved in Sunday's gunbattle in Baghdad's al-
Yarmukh neighbourhood.
Eight people were killed and 13 wounded in the shooting, which Prime
Minister Nuri al-Maliki condemned as a "criminal" act.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called Maliki yesterday to
express her regret, as US and Iraqi officials pursued their
investigations into the incident.
US and Iraqi sources in Baghdad said the shooting erupted after a
bomb exploded near a US diplomatic convoy, but a US government
incident report said armed insurgents fired on the convoy and
Blackwater guards responded.
The Iraqi judge said the case against Blackwater, one of the biggest
private security firms operating in the violence-wracked country,
could be filed either by relatives of the victims or by the government.
Despite the Interior ministry order, a US embassy official said today
that Blackwater -- which employs almost 1,000 people in Iraq -- had
not been expelled.
Bureau Report
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