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Teaser Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-24-10 11:21 PM
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Biden: Obama Admin to appeal Blackwater/Xe decision
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/6832735.html

BAGHDAD — The U.S. will appeal a court decision dismissing manslaughter charges against five Blackwater Worldwide guards involved in a deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said Saturday.

Biden's announcement after a meeting with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani shows just how diplomatically sensitive the incident remains nearly three years later. A lawyer for one guard, noting that word of the intended appeal came in Iraq, accused the Obama administration of political expediency and said the U.S. was pursuing an innocent man, rather than justice.



This is a nice small step. And is the kind of change I voted for.
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jillan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-24-10 11:23 PM
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1. Biden was in Iraq over the weekend - maybe he saw first hand the effect of that court decision.
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