Ex-Blackwater guard: 'I am a POW in my own country'
WASHINGTON – Nick Slatten went to war for his country.
But as he sits behind bars waiting for prosecutors to decide his fate, the 33-year-old former Blackwater security guard, convicted of initiating a mass shooting against unarmed Iraqi civilians, insists he is the innocent victim of a corrupt system that sent him to prison for doing his job.
“I am a POW in my own country,” Slatten said.
In interviews with USA TODAY, conducted by email, Slatten denied firing the first shots that investigators say resulted in a deadly rampage in Baghdad’s Nisour Square on Sept. 16, 2007.
Fourteen unarmed Iraqis were killed and 17 others were wounded in what the U.S. government called an ambush against innocent Iraqi civilians. The victims included women and children.
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