FINDLAW: Blackwater Guards Indicted for Manslaughter in Nisour Square Massacre

US V. SLOUGH, ET AL.
(U.S. Dist. Ct., D.C. Dist., Dec. 8, 2008) – The indictment of five Blackwater guards involved in the September, 2007 massacre in Baghdad’s Nisour Square was unsealed today. The guards were indicted on 14 counts of voluntary manslaughter, 20 counts of attempted voluntary manslaughter, and one count of discharging firearms during and in retaliation to a crime of violence.