Iraqis Welcome Blackwater Indictments

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A bitter glee was the prevailing reaction in Baghdad to Monday's indictment in the U.S. of five Blackwater guards accused of killing 17 unarmed civilians at a busy intersection in the Iraqi capital last year. "It's about time they pay for their crimes," said Hosham Abdel Kader, a 53-year-old who was celebrating the Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday with his family at a restaurant in the mainly-Shi'ite Karrada district. "I recoil, I freeze when I see those mercenaries on the street."

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