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US Blackwater lawsuit signatures sought by Iraq
Posted: Jan 19, 2010
Iraq has begun collecting signatures for a class action lawsuit on behalf of people killed or wounded in incidents involving US security firm Blackwater.
It will seek compensation for a number of such cases, the office of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said.
Incidents include the 2007 killing of 17 Iraqis in Baghdad's Nisoor Square.
Last month, a US judge dismissed charges against five Blackwater guards over those killings, which Iraqi officials described as "regrettable".
Immediately after the US decision, the Iraqi government issued several angry statements pledging that it would continue to "act forcefully and decisively to prosecute".
It has become a notorious incident in Iraq, with the government now taking the initiative in organising the families of the victims to launch civil suits against Blackwater, says the BBC's Jim Muir in Baghdad.
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About 50 family members turned up at the prime minister's office after being invited to a meeting at which most of them signed powers of attorney, authorising the government's lawyers to sue the company on their behalf.
Some confirmed that they had already signed compensation agreements with Blackwater. Others said they had neither signed anything nor taken any compensation. They included a man whose son was killed in the Nisoor Square incident.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8466303.stm
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