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In Iraq, Trump’s Blackwater pardons meet with cynicism, fatigue Mustafa Salim, Louisa Loveluck © Ali Youssef/AFP/Getty Images An Iraqi man rides a bicycle past a burned a car after Blackwater guards escorting U.S. Embassy officials opened fire in a Baghdad neighborhood in September 2007. BAGHDAD The 2007 unprovoked killing of Iraqi civilians by Blackwater security contractors is remembered here as one of the most emblematic chapters of America s ruinous invasion. Yet the news Wednesday that President Trump has pardoned four U.S. contractors convicted of first-degree murder or manslaughter in Baghdad’s Nisour Square made few headlines in Iraq. Often, it met with fatigue or cynicism, briefly surprising but not unexpected. And for many Iraqis, it seemed only a restatement of their decades-long experience with U.S. power.

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