男女羞羞视频在线观看,国产精品黄色免费,麻豆91在线视频,美女被羞羞免费软件下载,国产的一级片,亚洲熟色妇,天天操夜夜摸,一区二区三区在线电影

Asia-Pacific

Biden: US to appeal dismissal of Blackwater case

(Agencies)
Updated: 2010-01-24 11:07
Large Medium Small

BAGHDAD - The U.S. will appeal a court decision dismissing manslaughter charges against five Blackwater Worldwide guards involved in a deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said Saturday.

Biden: US to appeal dismissal of Blackwater case
Iraq's President Jalal Talabani (R) receives U.S. Vice President Joe Biden during Biden's visit to Baghdad January 23, 2010.??[Photo/Agencies]

Biden's announcement after a meeting with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani shows just how diplomatically sensitive the incident remains nearly three years later. A lawyer for one guard, noting that word of the intended appeal came in Iraq, accused the Obama administration of political expediency and said the U.S. was pursuing an innocent man, rather than justice.

Blackwater security contractors were guarding U.S. diplomats when the guards opened fire in Nisoor Square, a crowded Baghdad intersection, on September 16, 2007. Seventeen people were killed, including women and children, in a shooting that inflamed anti-American sentiment in Iraq.

Related readings:
Biden: US to appeal dismissal of Blackwater case US Marines' Iraq command ends; Biden in Baghdad
Biden: US to appeal dismissal of Blackwater case US Vice President Biden hits nerve in Russia
Biden: US to appeal dismissal of Blackwater case Iraq tells Biden: Reconciliation pure internal affair
Biden: US to appeal dismissal of Blackwater case Biden salutes Romania-US ties

Biden expressed his "personal regret" for the shooting and said the Obama administration was disappointed by the dismissal. "A dismissal is not an acquittal," he said.

The U.S. rebuffed Iraqi demands that the U.S. contractors face trial in Iraqi courts. After a lengthy investigation, U.S. prosecutors charged five of the contractors with manslaughter and took a guilty plea from a sixth.

But the case fell apart when a federal trial judge in Washington, Ricardo Urbina, said in a December 31 ruling that the Justice Department mishandled evidence and violated the guards' constitutional rights. Prosecutors now face difficult odds getting an appeals court to reinstate the case.

The dismissal outraged many Iraqis, who said it showed the Americans considered themselves above the law. The Iraqi government began collecting signatures for a class-action lawsuit from and abetting. It's unclear what Urbina's ruling means for him.

Blackwater has said the guards were innocent, contending there were ambushed by insurgents. Prosecutors said the shooting was unprovoked.

Court documents paint a murky picture of a case rife with conflicting evidence. Some witnesses say the Blackwater convoy was under fire; others say it wasn't. Some said the entire convoy fired into the intersection; others said only a few men opened fire.

Even the government's key witnesses, three members of the Blackwater convoy, at times seemed to undercut the government's case.

Since the shooting, the Myock, North Carolina-based Blackwater has renamed itself Xe Services and overhauled its management. Iraq has pulled the company's license to operate in the country.

主站蜘蛛池模板: 青河县| 边坝县| 建德市| 普洱| 麻阳| 盘锦市| 上林县| 长治县| 清水河县| 巢湖市| 开原市| 诸暨市| 毕节市| 望江县| 祁阳县| 景宁| 新巴尔虎右旗| 广州市| 湘潭县| 登封市| 扎鲁特旗| 久治县| 通渭县| 宁海县| 凤阳县| 抚顺县| 沙雅县| 延边| 大洼县| 东平县| 湘阴县| 象山县| 怀远县| 汪清县| 宜兰县| 报价| 巴青县| 庆元县| 蓝田县| 宁安市| 榆林市| 绥芬河市| 子长县| 孙吴县| 金乡县| 莱阳市| 拉孜县| 巧家县| 德江县| 穆棱市| 巴彦淖尔市| 昭苏县| 酒泉市| 临沧市| 本溪市| 遂昌县| 元氏县| 饶河县| 广安市| 延川县| 海淀区| 建阳市| 竹山县| 恩平市| 孝昌县| 济宁市| 黄浦区| 杂多县| 中宁县| 康马县| 专栏| 哈尔滨市| 涿州市| 苍山县| 江西省| 延津县| 奉节县| 太谷县| 恩平市| 西和县| 九龙坡区| 阿克|