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Publicado: 21 Nov 2011 22:15
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-164537997 January 2012
Falluja lawsuit: Blackwater families settle case
Families of four US men killed in a notorious ambush in Iraq in 2004 have settled a long-running lawsuit with the security firm they worked for.
The four employees of Blackwater, which has since been renamed Academi, were shot, beaten and burned to death in the flash-point city of Falluja.
Two of their bodies were hung from a bridge in an act which shocked America and triggered an assault on the city.
Blackwater was accused of exposing them to high risk without proper protection.
The confidential settlement announced on Friday ended the families' efforts to secure a public investigation into the killings.
The newspaper which first reported the deal, The Virginian-Pilot, said it could have otherwise become "a landmark lawsuit over battlefield accountability, in an era of privatised warfare".
'Just so evil'
Wesley Batalona, Scott Helvenston, Michael Teague and Jerry Zovko had been travelling in two Mitsubishi SUVs, escorting a convoy of lorries to pick up kitchen equipment from a US military base.
It was clear that this was going to be a cover-up from the beginning”
End Quote Jason Helvenston Brother of dead security guard
The four ex-servicemen were ambushed and shot dead after which their bodies were dragged out by a furious crowd.
Jason Helvenston, brother of Scott Helvenston, said there had been a cover-up.
"The lawsuit coming to an end is no surprise to me whatsoever," he was quoted as saying by the Associated Press news agency.
"It was clear that this was going to be a cover-up from the beginning."
Mr Helvenston, who was not a party to the lawsuit, added: "You just feel the injustice of this long enough, and see that these people are just so evil, all you can do is pray to God that he'll take care of it because that's all you've got left."
Scott Helvenston's former wife, Patricia Irby, said the sum their son and daughter would get had not yet been determined.
"I'm glad it's over," she said. "It's been a hard fight and the lawyers did a phenomenal job."
Academi spokesman John Procter declined to comment, citing terms of the confidential settlement.
The families also dropped a state lawsuit dormant while the federal case was litigated, said Kirk Warner, a lawyer representing the company.
http://www.europapress.es/internacional ... 82950.htmlLas familias de Stephen Helvenston, Mike Teague, Jerko Zovko y Wesley Batalona interpusieron una demanda contra Blackwater en 2005 después de que sus cónyuges fueran aniquilados por los insurgentes iraquíes cuando escoltaban a un convoy de suministros en Faluya.
Con este pacto extrajudicial, las familias retiraran los cargos presentados ante el Tribunal de Apelación del Cuarto Circuito de Richmond, en el estado de Virginia, en la costa este.
Los cuatro soldados fueron golpeados, quemados y ejecutados, y dos de los cuerpos calcinados fueron colgados de un puente que atravesaba el río Éufrates.
http://rt.com/usa/news/pentagon-war-dru ... water-217/As long ago as 2007, the Pentagon was considering billions of dollars worth of contracts to private contractor aid in the War on Drugs, but the BBC reports that the latest deal will actually aid in the “transfer” of control out of Washington and instead put the actions of enforcing drug production and trafficking in the hands of civilians, not servicemen bound by certain rules and regulations.
Additionally, the transition will allow the government to usher billions into the War on Drugs, but to the public it will appear as if the effort is, on the periphery, nothing more than another DoD contract. Opposition has long existed to the lengthy War on Drugs, and by continuing the efforts in Central and South America without relying on further Pentagon expenditures, less money will appear to be focused on ongoing operations.