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Will George Bush pardon the Blackwater guards for the murder of 17 Iraqi's?
Current forecast: 14% chance 
Combining all predictions, the current forecast is that this is 14% likely to happen (unchanged in last 1 day)
The US Justice Department appears to be on the verge of handing down the first indictments against armed private forces for crimes committed in Iraq. The reported targets of the "draft" indictments: six Blackwater operatives involved in the September 16, 2007, killing of seventeen Iraqi civilians in Baghdad's Nisour Square.
for more info -http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081201/scahill
If indictments are handed down will Bush pardon the indicted Blackwater guards prior to leaving office?
for more info -http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081201/scahill
If indictments are handed down will Bush pardon the indicted Blackwater guards prior to leaving office?
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Created Tue 18th Nov 2008 12:28pm PST by rbrog77
rbrog77
Suspend date: Sun 18th Jan 11:59pm PST (1 week to go)
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score: 10
Wall Street Journal Online 2 weeks ago
In his Dec. 16 op-ed 'How Blackwater Serves America,' Erik Prince, the founder and CEO of Blackwater Worldwide, asks readers to 'think of our staff as soldiers who re-enlist.' Let's be clear. Private security contractors are
score: 10
Wall Street Journal Online 3 weeks ago
question for me has never been why the U.S. got into Iraq. Instead, as the CEO of Blackwater, the urgent question was how the company I head could perform the duties asked of us by the U.S. State Department. Last week the Department of Justice announced
score: 10
Sydney Morning Herald 4 weeks ago
IRAQI victims of an allegedly unprovoked shooting in Baghdad last year have demanded the death penalty for five Blackwater Worldwide security contractors, who were indicted on 14 charges of manslaughter over an incident in which they opened fire with
score: 10
Business Day 4 weeks ago
WASHINGTON - Five guards from US security firm Blackwater Worldwide, a State Department contractor in Iraq, were charged yesterday with killing 14 Iraqi civilians and wounding 18 others using gunfire and grenades at a busy Baghdad intersection last year
score: 10
Washington Post 4 weeks ago
The federal manslaughter indictment of five Blackwater Worldwide security guards in the horrific massacre of more than a dozen Iraqi civilians in Baghdad may look like an exercise in accountability, but it's probably the exact opposite
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