Rights group sues Blackwater

[Barrett808]

Source: Modesto Bee

WASHINGTON — A human rights group filed its second lawsuit against Blackwater Worldwide contractors Wednesday, accusing the security firm of killing an Iraqi rug salesman in a September shooting.

Referring to Blackwater guards as "shooters" and "mercenaries," the Center for Constitutional Rights accused the company of war crimes, assault, wrongful death, negligent hiring and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

The lawsuit involves a Sept. 9 shooting near the al-Watahba Square in Baghdad, where attorneys say Blackwater guards fired without justification into a crowd of civilians. The rights group filed the lawsuit on behalf of Ali Hussamaldeen Ibrahim Albazzaz, whom it says died in the shooting.

That was a week before a shooting at Nisoor Square, where 17 Iraqi civilians were killed. The Justice Department is investigating that shooting and a grand jury has heard testimony from Blackwater guards who were involved.

Read more: http://www.modbee.com/24hour/politics/story/156925.html

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

1. May EVERY available resource be utilized to sue this, and ALL war-profiteering corporations.

If the government WHICH IS SUPPOSE TO PROTECT ITS PEOPLE AGAINST ALL PREDATORS refuses to do the moral and noble and honest act of criminalizing all war profiteering, then,...let all those able to file suits do so. WE CAN WHIDDLE THOSE EFFERS DOWN, without the 'establishment'!!!!

[pleah]

2. Good luck to them. Keep filing law suits until SOMETHING happens.

[sueh]

3. Amy Goodman interviewed the attorneys. Here's the link.

http://www.democracynow.org/2007/12/19/exclusiveblackwa...

[Barrett808]

4. Excellent, thanks!

[balantz]

5. Dismantle that cancer