Blackwater Bodyguards Given Immunity for Shooting 17 Civilians

Blackwater bodyguards were given immunity for the recent killings of 17 Iraqi civilians. The FBI has been trying to gather information for this investigation. The FBI took over the case early this month, officials said, after prosecutors in the Justice Department's criminal division realized it could not bring charges against Blackwater guards based on their statements to the Diplomatic Security investigators. Prosecutors will have to prove that any evidence they use in bringing charges against Blackwater employees was uncovered without using the guards' statements to State Department investigators. It is still unclear why and how these Blackwater guards got there immunity

Since this case cannot be tried under the military court, the US must put this case under criminal law, but it’s not clear how the law is going to cover criminal act under war zone conditions. Americans are immune from Iraqi law under a directive signed by the U.S. occupation authority in 2003 that has not been repealed by the Iraqi Parliament.

When was killing people so easy to get away with? The higher you go in the chain of politics the easier it is to get away with criminal acts. If someone were to kill innocent civilians in the US the trial would barely last a week. Are war zones and riots within US cities any different? I don’t believe so. It was a judgment call and the Blackwater guards made a bad judgment. Killing the innocent should be tried exactly the same as killing people in the US. Just because they are Iraqi’s doesn’t mean there any less human. Shooting 17 innocent people to me doesn’t seem like it is just something you can call an accident.