(Blackwater)Security contractors charged in Afghanistan killings to be arraigned

[maddezmom]

Source: CNN

Security contractors charged in Afghanistan killings to be arraignedBy the CNN Wire Staff
August 17, 2010 -- Updated 0559 GMT (1359 HKT)

(CNN) -- Two security contractors charged with fatally shooting two Afghan men after a traffic incident will be arraigned in a Virginia courtroom Tuesday morning.

Christopher Drotleff and Justin Cannon worked as security contractors for a subsidiary of Xe, the military contracting firm formerly known as Blackwater Worldwide.

They are each charged with two counts of second-degree murder and one count of attempted murder in connection with a May 2009 shooting in Kabul, Afghanistan.

The 12-count, 19-page indictment returned by a federal grand jury in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia also includes weapons charges against the two men.

Both men were in Afghanistan working for the security company Paravant -- a subsidiary of Xe -- to help the U.S. Army train Afghan troops.

Drotleff, Cannon and two other contractors, Steven McClain and Armando Hamid, were driving their interpreters on a busy Kabul street called Jalalabad Road on May 5, 2009, when they said a car slammed into one of their two cars.



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[ezmerelda39]

1. A lot of public expense

for a slap on the wrist and a "Tsk, tsk" for BW. 
Why bother?  There is no accountability, financial or morally
for them and these little so called incidences are merely held
up for public show, but nothing will happen.  It used to be
called a kangaroo court..maybe it still is....

[Alcibiades]

2. They should be tried in Afghanistan

The fact that they are being tried here shows that the idea that Afghanistan is somehow an independent, sovereign state is a lie.