Blackwater Iraq killings highlight lack of legal recourse against US contractors: NYT
Private security contractors operating in Iraq work largely above the law due to legal loopholes, according to a Thursday New York Times report on the aftermath of Sunday's shooting death of at least eight Iraqi civilians at the...
US House committee launches probe of State Department inspector general
The US House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Tuesday announced an investigation into whether State Department Inspector General Howard Krongard interfered with a fraud investigation related to construction of a new US embassy...
State judge allows Iraq wrongful death suit to proceed against US security contractor
A North Carolina state court judge Monday ruled that a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the families of four US contractors killed in Iraq against Blackwater Security Consulting could move forward after being stayed for nearly two...
JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego says that the massive US assault on Fallujah is but the latest instance of illegal American aggression in Iraq, undertaken with disregard for international treaties and...
