{"id":198286,"date":"2007-11-20T12:16:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-20T17:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/20\/federal-grand-gury-investigates-involvement-in-iraqi-deaths\/"},"modified":"2007-11-20T12:16:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-20T17:16:00","slug":"federal-grand-gury-investigates-involvement-in-iraqi-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/20\/federal-grand-gury-investigates-involvement-in-iraqi-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Grand Gury Investigates  Involvement in Iraqi Deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/theblotter\/2007\/11\/blackwater-guar.html\">Finally<\/a>, but given the degree to which the State Department has sabotaged this investigation from the beginning, I do not expect any indictments to come of it.<\/p>\n<p>Update: We now have reports that the Gand Jury is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/11\/19\/AR2007111901942.html?nav=rss_world\/mideast\/iraq\">investigating other <strike>Mercenaries<\/strike> Security Contractors in addition to Blackwater<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 255);\"><p>The Washington grand jury has issued subpoenas to<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> several private security firms<\/span>, including Blackwater, a legal source briefed on the probe said yesterday. Authorities are seeking company &#8220;after-action&#8221; reports and other documents that may shed light on specific incidents, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The source, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the probe, declined to say which incidents have been targeted, but he said t<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">he investigation ranges well beyond Blackwater<\/span>. Private security companies in Iraq &#8220;have been shooting a lot of people,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Emphasis mine<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>I think that if there is ever a fair accounting of the actions of the mercs in Iraq, a lot of people are going to be called to account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, but given the degree to which the State Department has sabotaged this investigation from the beginning, I do not expect any indictments to come of it. Update: We now have reports that the Gand Jury is investigating other Mercenaries Security Contractors in addition to Blackwater: The Washington grand jury has issued subpoenas to several &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1063,1179,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq","category-mercenaries","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}