Blackwater's Blood Money; How Much for a Dead Son?

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Source: ABC News


Blackwater Works Behind the Scenes to Settle With Survivors and Victims' Families of the Sept. 16 Shooting

The father of a 9-year-old Iraqi boy killed by Blackwater security guards says the company has offered to build a monument and make an unspecified cash payment to compensate him for the death of his son, Ali.

The boy was one of 17 civilians killed when Blackwater security guards, escorting a diplomatic convoy, opened fire at Baghdad's Nisour square Sept. 16.

While a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C. investigates the deaths, Blackwater has been operating behind the scenes in Iraq to settle with the survivors and families of the dead.

Officials familiar with the case told ABCNews.com that Blackwater had resisted U.S. government demands that the company pay at least $100,000 per death, claiming the U.S. government has not paid that much in similar situations in Iraq.

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The dead boy's father, Mohammed Abdul Razak, told ABCNews.com he had been approached by an Iraqi prosecutor who conveyed Blackwater's offer.

Razak said the company was offering to build a monument in the square to all of the victims, pay medical costs for those injured and make cash payments.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4256679&page=1

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Ali, 9, was one of 17 civilians killed when Blackwater security guards, escorting a diplomatic convoy, opened fire at Baghdad's Nisour square Sept. 16. (ABC News)

[ConcernedCanuk]

1. "winning hearts and minds" - well that's going swimmingly isn't it?

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I hope at least one or two of them mercenaries disappear themselves over killing children.

The genocide at the hands of the United States is appalling, and the fact that the rest of the world looks on without serious reaction to the United States massacres is disturbing, to say the least.

[orleans]

2. how much is that child worth, america? look at that face, those eyes, that smile

and tell me it is worth $10,000 to massacre that child, or $50,000 or $100,000. how much do we pay to gun down mankind's future; how much does one need to pay to feel human again? what is the cost of tomorrow?

[whistle]

3. Blackwater is the private army of the GOP is it not?

[MammalSauce]

4. Where is the pro-lifer outrage?

Oh right, they're the ones supporting this.

[fascisthunter]

5. Blackwater=Brownshirt Mercenaries

[adadem]

6. Eric Prince's goons are murderers

and should be tried as such.

such a sweet looking boy...so very sad.

[superconnected]

7. What a beautiful little boy. How horrifying this is being allowed to happen.

[Stuart G]

8. What if some mercanary org killed an American kid. (cute blond of course) now what....

would the outrage be of the Right Wing Media Thugs.......

Would we hear the end of it ever?? That some American kid was killed by an outside group of ??????????
Yet, American soldiers have killed thousands in the name of Chimp. No wonder we are not thought of much in the world.

[tanyev]

9. Gee, I wonder if Erik Prince is going to donate every penny he makes from his upcoming book.

Not.