Still no charges in fatal shooting of bodyguard for Iraqi VP

Friday, August 10, 2007

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By DEBORAH HASTINGS
AP National Writer

...The contractor fled. Eventually, he made his way to the U.S. embassy where Blackwater officials arranged to have him flown home to the United States, said U.S. officials who spoke only on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media...

The shooting was briefly mentioned earlier this year in a little-noticed congressional hearing. Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, confronted Blackwater attorney Andrew G. Howell during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee meeting on the giant firm's role in Iraq...

"I just want to point out that there's a question that could actually make their corporate officers accessories here in helping to create a flight from justice for someone who's committed a murder," Kucinich told committee chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif.

The shooting has not been publicly discussed since.