Report: gunmen behaved liked gunmen

No one could have predicted this: the trigger-happy gunmen of a mercenary force that has enjoyed U.S. government-backed impunity, and who have a widely reported history of shooting at innocent bystanders as part of their standard operating procedure, are believed to have shot innocent bystanders.

The FBI’s report on the infamous September 16 shooting in Baghdad’s Nisour Square concludes that the killings of at least 14 of the 17 Iraqis shot by Blackwater security men were unjustified. Blackwater maintains those Iraqis needed killing.

So, will anyone be prosecuted for those deaths? Don’t count on it.

A Blackwater guard who got drunk at a Green Zone Christmas party and shot the bodyguard of an Iraqi government official wasn’t prosecuted. And the shooters from Nisour Square were already granted immunity by the State Department investigators looking into the mass killing.

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