Prosecutors in Washington are building a new criminal case against a group of former Blackwater private security guards whom the government believes wrongly killed more than a dozen Iraqi civilians in a Baghdad shootout in 2007.
A federal judge in December 2009 dismissed the government’s high-profile, controversial manslaughter case, saying that the prosecution was unlawfully built on protected statements that the guards made after the shooting. Senior U.S. District Judge Ricardo M. Urbina of the District of Columbia had concluded the prosecution was tainted with information that the prosecutors should never have used.
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