Most families in Nusoor Square killings join Blackwater settlement

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http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/01/10/iraq.blackwater.killings/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn

(CNN) -- All but one of the families who lost relatives in Baghdad's Nusoor Square killings have agreed to settle their claims against the security contractor formerly known as Blackwater, one of the survivors said Sunday.

Hassan Salman, who was wounded in the 2007 shootings, told CNN that 16 of the 17 families of the dead agreed to $100,000 lawsuit settlements from Xe, as Blackwater now calls itself. Those wounded were offered between $20,000 and $50,000 apiece, Salman said.