The prosecutor meeting with victims’ families sends a message that Iraqi lives matter.
By KATHERINE ZOEPF and ATHEER KAKAN
New York Times
BAGHDAD –An American prosecutor working on the case against five Blackwater security guards indicted in connection with a 2007 shooting in Baghdad has arrived in Iraq and will be meeting with victims’ families this week, Iraqi officials said.
An Iraqi official familiar with the investigation said the meeting with victims’ families would take place on Saturday in a large dining center in Iraq’s National Police Headquarters, just a stone’s throw from Nisour Square, the traffic circle in Baghdad where at least 17 Iraqis were killed by private security guards working for Blackwater Worldwide
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