Lawsuit Claims Blackwater Guards Abandoned Post on Day of Shootings, Used Steroids

Blackwater lawsuit says order ignored

Lawsuit Claims Blackwater Guards Abandoned Post on Day of Shootings, Used Steroids

LARA JAKES JORDAN
AP News

Nov 27, 2007 17:40 EST

A lawsuit against government contractor Blackwater Worldwide accuses its bodyguards of ignoring a direct order and abandoning their post shortly before taking part in a shooting in Baghdad that killed 17 Iraqi civilians.

Filed this week in U.S. District Court in Washington, the complaint also accuses North Carolina-based Blackwater of failing to give drug tests to its guards in Baghdad — even though an estimated one in four of them was using steroids or other "judgment altering substances."

A Blackwater spokeswoman said Tuesday its employees are banned from using steroids or other enhancement drugs but declined to comment on the other charges detailed in the 18-page lawsuit.

The lawsuit was filed Monday on behalf of five Iraqis who were killed and two who were injured during the Sept. 16 shooting in Baghdad's Nisoor Square. The shootings enraged the Iraqi government, and the Justice Department is investigating whether it can bring criminal charges in the case, even though the State Department promised limited immunity to the Blackwater guards.

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http://www.rawstory.com/news/mochila/Blackwater_lawsuit_says_order_ignor_11272007.html

in the woods with guns for sure. Like the writer who bought the tank to run around in. What is it with these people any how?