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Titolo: sulle stragi di civili iracheni per mano USA di cui Santini non parla mai

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 — Federal agents investigating the Sept. 16 episode in
which Blackwater security personnel shot and killed 17 Iraqi civilians
have found that at least 14 of the shootings were unjustified and violated
deadly-force rules in effect for security contractors in Iraq, according
to civilian and military officials briefed on the case.
The F.B.I. investigation into the shootings in Baghdad is still under way,
but the findings, which indicate that the company’s employees recklessly
used lethal force, are already under review by the Justice Department.
Prosecutors have yet to decide whether to seek indictments, and some
officials have expressed pessimism that adequate criminal laws exist to
enable them to charge any Blackwater employee with criminal wrongdoing.
Spokesmen for the Justice Department and the F.B.I. declined to discuss
the matter.
The case could be one of the first thorny issues to be decided by Michael
B. Mukasey, who was sworn in as attorney general last week. He may be
faced with a decision to turn down a prosecution on legal grounds at a
time when a furor has erupted in Congress about the administration’s
failure to hold security contractors accountable for their misdeeds.
Representative David E. Price, a North Carolina Democrat who has sponsored
legislation to extend American criminal law to contractors serving
overseas, said the Justice Department must hold someone accountable for
the shootings.
“Just because there are deficiencies in the law, and there certainly are,”
Mr. Price said, “that can’t serve as an excuse for criminal actions like
this to be unpunished. I hope the new attorney general makes this case a
top priority. He needs to announce to the American people and the world
that we uphold the rule of law and we intend to pursue this.”
Investigators have concluded that as many as five of the company’s guards
opened fire during the shootings, at least some with automatic weapons.
Investigators have focused on one guard, identified as “turret gunner No.
3,” who fired a large number of rounds and was responsible for several
fatalities.
Investigators found no evidence to support assertions by Blackwater
employees that they were fired upon by Iraqi civilians. That finding
sharply contradicts initial assertions by Blackwater officials, who said
that company employees fired in self-defense and that three company
vehicles were damaged by gunfire.
Government officials said the shooting occurred when security guards fired
in response to gunfire by other members of their unit in the mistaken
belief that they were under attack. One official said, “I wouldn’t call it
a massacre, but to say it was unwarranted is an understatement.”
Among the 17 killings, three may have been justified under rules that
allow lethal force to be used in response to an imminent threat, the
F.B.I. agents have concluded. They concluded that Blackwater guards might
have perceived a threat when they opened fire on a white Kia sedan that
moved toward Nisour Square after traffic had been stopped for a Blackwater
convoy of four armored vehicles. 
Two people were killed in the car, Ahmed Haithem Ahmed and his mother,
Mohassin, a physician. Relatives said they were on a family errand and
posed no threat to the Blackwater convoy.
Investigators said Blackwater guards might have felt endangered by a
third, and unidentified, Iraqi who was killed nearby. But the
investigators determined that the subsequent shootings of 14 Iraqis, some
of whom were shot while fleeing the scene, were unprovoked.
Under the firearms policy governing all State Department employees and
contractors, lethal force may be used “only in response to an imminent
threat of deadly force or serious physical injury against the individual,
those under the protection of the individual or other individuals.”
A separate military review of the Sept. 16 shootings concluded that all of
the killings were unjustified and potentially criminal. One of the
military investigators said the F.B.I. was being generous to Blackwater in
characterizing any of the killings as justifiable.
Anne E. Tyrrell, a Blackwater spokeswoman, said she would have no comment
until the F.B.I. released its findings. 
Although investigators are confident of their overall findings, they have
been frustrated by problems with evidence that hampered their inquiry.
Investigators who arrived more than two weeks after the shooting could not
reconstruct the crime scene, a routine step in shooting inquiries in the
United States. 
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/14/world/middleeast/14blackwater.html?ex=1352696400&en=baf511f71e78f1fd&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
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Come mai che non condanni la strage compiuta dai tuoi amici terroristi
iracheni dove sono stati massacrati anche 59 studenti di una vicina
scuola elementare?
Quando la strage di civili la fanno i tuoi amici, sssst guai a chi
parla! 
Fazioso come tutti i cavernicoli di sinistra.