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Blackwater Faces Millions in Fines for Weapons Shipments

HeadlineNov 13, 2008

In other Iraq news, the private military company Blackwater is facing millions in fines for shipping automatic weapons into Iraq without the proper permits. Some of the weapons reportedly ended up on the Iraqi black market. The fine is expected to come out of a long-running investigation, but criminal charges are not expected. Blackwater has yet to be charged or hit with any other punitive action over the unprovoked massacre of seventeen Iraqi civilians in Baghdad’s Nisoor Square on September 16, 2007. The company has received more than $1.2 billion in government contracts since then.

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