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The Blackwater Killings Civil Suit V |
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Case File: Civil Lawsuit for the
September 9th, 2007 Killings |
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Estate of Sa’ad Raheem Jarallah et al
vs. XE (Blackwater) et al U.S. District Court for the Southern
District of California Case. No.: 3:09-cv-00631-H-JMA Filed on March 27th, 2009 On June 2nd, 2009 the case was
transferred to the U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Virginia and
consolidated with Civil Suit II. June 2nd, 2009 - Notice of Voluntary
Dismissal “[…] Pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 41(a)(1)(i),
Plaintiffs voluntarily dismiss without prejudice their claims against all
Defendants. […]” “[…] 11. This action is being brought against Xe,
formerly Blackwater, in all of its various corporate incarnations. These
companies (including a Xe-Blackwater company called Falcon that continues to
operate in Iraq), are all component parts of a single private company wholly
owned and personally controlled by a man named Erik Prince. Prince and his
corporate entities earn billions of dollars selling mercenary services. “12. On September 9, 2007, heavily-armed Blackwater mercenaries
(known in Blackwater parlance as ‘shooters’) working in Iraq fired, without
justification, on a crowd of innocent Iraqi persons in and around Al Watahba
Square resulting in multiple deaths and injuries. Mr. Jarallah was among
those killed in this massacre. This senseless slaughter on September 9, 2007,
was only one in a series of recent incidents in Blackwater’s lengthy pattern
of egregious misconduct in Iraq resulting in the deaths of innocent Iraqis. “13. Xe-Blackwater created and fostered a culture of
lawlessness amongst its employees, encouraging them to act in the company’s
financial interests at the expense of innocent human life. The September 9,
2007 shooting is one episode in a lengthy pattern of egregious misconduct by
Xe-Blackwater acting in Iraq, Afghanistan and around the world. This action
seeks compensatory damages to compensate the family of Mr. Sa’ad Raheem
Jarallah, who was gunned down and killed by Xe-Blackwater shooters. This
action seeks punitive damages in an amount sufficient to punish Erik Prince
and his Xe-Blackwater companies for their repeated callous killing of
innocents. […]” |
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