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Blackwater killed my son

How US private security guards shot dead 14 civilians in Baghdad in 2007, plus Florida's 'hanging chads' chaos, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on negotiating debt and Mandela in Detroit.

An Iraqi father remembers the day in September 2007 when US private security guards opened fire on civilians in central Baghdad killing 17 people, including his 9-year-old son. Plus, former president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on negotiating the cancellation of Liberia's massive debt; the chaos of Florida's 'hanging chads' in the 2000 US elections; when Nelson Mandela visited Detroit; and the end of the Galileo space project.

Photo: An Iraqi looks at a burnt car on the site where Blackwater guards opened fire on civilians in Baghdad on 16 September 2007 (Credit ALI YUSSEF/AFP via Getty Images)

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Mon 28 Sep 2020 23:06GMT

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  • Sat 26 Sep 2020 13:06GMT
  • Mon 28 Sep 2020 23:06GMT

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