Iraq Insists on Blackwater Case Transfer to Int’l Courts, UN, Urges States to Back Baghdad

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Iraqi legislators intend to transfer to international courts and the UN the case of four former Blackwater contractors convicted of killing innocent Iraqi civilians and recently pardoned by US President Donald Trump for further consideration, a member of the Iraqi parliament’s security and defense committee told Sputnik.

The parliament’s foreign relations committee earlier demanded the government to review or suspend deals concluded with the US security companies over Trump’s decision to pardon four ex-Blackwater contractors convicted in connection with the death of 14 Iraqi civilians, including two children, in Baghdad’s Nisour Square in 2007. The Iraqi foreign ministry also said that it plans to convince the US administration to reconsider this action.

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