Antiwar.com Original
Originally posted at TomDispatch.
As his time in office ends in a mob
invasion of the Capitol and an avalanche
of pardons for his pals and cohorts, Donald Trump also pardoned four American
guards from the former private security company Blackwater (run by Erik
Prince, brother of Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos), part of a convoy
that sprayed Baghdad’s Nisour Square with a devastating wave of gunfire
and grenades in September 2007. In that unprovoked massacre, 14 civilians
died, including a nine-year-old
boy, and 17 more were wounded. The four perpetrators were later convicted
of first-degree murder or manslaughter in an American court (with Iraqi