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January 20th,
2010 - No Bail for Former Security Contractor News article from United Press
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No Bail for Former Security Contractor From United Press International January 20, 2010 Norfolk, Va. - A federal
judge in Virginia has ordered pre-trial detention for a man accused of
killing two Afghan civilians while working for Blackwater, now called Xe. U.S. District Judge Robert
Doumar said Christopher Drotleff might "shoot somebody he felt had
angered him," The Virginian-Pilot reported Wednesday. At Tuesday's hearing,
prosecutors argued for continuing to deny Drotleff bail. They presented
evidence that Drotleff threatened in 2002 to shoot a pedestrian and that he
went AWOL seven times as a U.S. Marine and has a history of misdemeanor
convictions. Drotleff was working for a
subsidiary of Xe, the name adopted by the military contractor Blackwater, in
Afghanistan last year when he allegedly opened fire on civilians. Two were
killed and a third wounded. His lawyer played a tape of
a 911 call Drotleff made to report "armed contractors" - actually
FBI agents - were coming for him. Defense attorney Lawrence Woodward Jr.
argued Drotleff did not know the men were government agents, but the judge
took the tape as more evidence of Drotleff's dangerousness. "I wouldn't want to
brush up against him and provoke anger," Doumar said. "He and
society do not get along." © 2010 United Press
International, Inc. External link: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010/01/20/No-bail-for-former-security-contractor/UPI-73601264012670/ |