[U: The Criminal Trump Criminal Pardons Them.] Blackwater Outcome -- In Nisour Square? Murder.

UPDATED: 12.23.2020 -- The Tangerine Mussolini has pardoned all of them. I am disgusted, but not surprised. Criminals... gotta' criminal....

Finally. Some form of rough justice -- via the NYT today:

. . .Jurors found one defendant guilty of murder and three others of manslaughter and weapons charges, roundly asserting that the shooting was criminal. . . .

Seventeen Iraqis died when gunfire erupted on Sept. 16, 2007 in the crowded Nisour Square in Baghdad. The shooting inflamed anti-American sentiment abroad and helped solidify the notion that Blackwater, America’s largest security contractor in Iraq, was reckless and unaccountable.

The former contractors said that they were ambushed by insurgents and that civilian deaths were the unfortunate, unintended consequences of urban warfare.

The defendants were Blackwater guards. One of them, Nicholas A. Slatten, who the government said fired the first shots, was convicted of murder. The others — Dustin L. Heard, Evan S. Liberty and Paul A. Slough — were convicted on manslaughter and firearms charges. . . .

Backgrounder here. Namaste -- one and all.