Ex-Blackwater contractor sentenced to life for 2007 Iraq shooting that killed 14

[TomSea]

Ex-Blackwater contractor sentenced to life for 2007 Iraq shooting that killed 14
By Vandana Rambaran | Fox News

A former Blackwater security contractor was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday for taking part in a mass shooting at a Baghdad traffic circle in 2007 that killed 14 unarmed civilians.

A federal jury convicted 35-year-old Nicholas Slatten, of Sparta, Tenn., of first-degree murder in December. Prosecutors said that Slatten was the first of a group of four contractors to open fire in the shooting that killed 10 men, two women and two boys, ages 9 and 11.

Defense attorneys claimed that Slatten mistakenly believed that a potential suicide car bomber was moving toward his convoy. Friends and relatives of Slatten pleaded with U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth for a lenient sentence, to no avail.

Read more at: https://www.foxnews.com/us/ex-blackwater-contractor-sentenced-to-life-for-iraq-shooting-that-killed-14

Move to wherever is proper.

[Smokin Joe]

He was guarding a State Department convoy. I don't know who was the principal, but you can bet there'd have been Hell to pay if a car bomber got through. I wasn't there, but this shows how people get thrown under the bus.