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Iraqi official comments on Blackwater investigation
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Source: CCTV.com | 10-10-2007 15:38
Special Report: Iraq in Transition |
Members of Blackwater scan Baghdad's city centre from their helicopter. (AFP File Photo)
An Iraqi Sunni Arab official says that the shooting incident allegedly involving the American security firm Blackwater is symptomatic of a "security disorder", in which the "Iraq citizen has become the target".
Iraq says that 17 Iraqis were killed in the shooting. It also says that the company's convoy did not come under direct or indirect fire at western Baghdad's Nisoor Square. The firm's guards allegedly opened fire without provocation. And the Iraqi government wants Blackwater to pay 8 million US dollars in compensation to each of the families of the 17 victims.
Omar Abdul Satter, Iraq MP, member of Iraq Accord Front, "The danger behind revealing this case led the US congress or the concerned sides in the US administration to close this case in a way that did not force them to open this big dossier."
