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Prosecutors: Blackwater Mercenaries Opened Fire to ‘Instigate Gun Battles’
• New York TimesPrivate security guards who worked for Blackwater repeatedly shot wildly into the streets of Baghdad without regard for civilians long before they were involved in a 2007 shooting episode that left at least 14 Iraqis dead, federal prosecutors charge