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Blackwater Owes $136M: Iraq

Demands firm pay millions to victims

By Caroline Zimmerman, Newser User

Posted Oct 8, 2007 8:32 PM CDT

(Newser) – Today Iraq told Bush to cut ties with Blackwater and then demanded that the firm pay $8 million for each victim in a recent shooting, the AP reports. Al-Maliki’s government also wants Bush to deliver Blackwater mercs to face possible justice in Iraq. Today’... Read full story »

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