Another criminal case against Blackwater security guards
Today’s New York Times reports here that “[t]wo former Blackwater security guards were arrested Thursday on murder charges stemming from a shooting in Afghanistan last May that left two Afghans dead and a third wounded.” James Risen, Two Former Blackwater Guards Are Charged with Murder in an Afghan Shooting, New York Times, Jan. 8, 2010, at A10. The article also reported: “In the criminal case involving Blackwater in Afghanistan, the two former guards — Justin Cannon, 27, of Corpus Christi, Tex., and Christopher Drotleff, 29, of Virginia Beach, Va. — were arrested after being indicted in federal court in Virginia on charges of second-degree murder, attempted murder and firearms violations. At the time of the May 5 shooting in Kabul, the men were working for Paravant LLC, a subsidiary of Xe Services, and under a contract they were assigned to train Afghan soldiers.”
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