The news broke just hours after it was revealed Blackwater had reached a settlement for the shootings of around seventy Iraqis. Blackwater is reportedly paying $100,000 for each of the Iraqis killed by its forces and between $20-30,000 to each Iraqi wounded. News of the settlement came a week after a federal judge dismissed manslaughter charges against five Blackwater operatives involved in the Nisoor Square massacre that killed seventeen Iraqi civilians.