Posts Tagged ‘Tennessee’

A nice New Years gift to the members of the Blackwater team who were accused of killing civilians in Nisoor Square incident in Baghdad in 2007. Two of the members of this team, Dustin Heard and Nick Slatten, are from Tennessee so a big Happy New Year to both of you and your family. This has been a travesty of justice from the get go, when you’ve got DOJ prosecutors with a grudge going after the employees of a specific company, Blackwater.

Here are some previous posts regarding this story:

Justice “shoehorning the facts” to indict Blackwater Contractors

Justice Dept. Advising Iraqis to sue to Blackwater???

Website now set up for Indicted Blackwater Contractors

Blackwater Down

Judge Dismisses Blackwater Case

A federal judge cited repeated government missteps in dismissing all charges against five Blackwater Worldwide security guards accused of killing unarmed Iraqi civilians in a case that inflamed anti-American sentiment abroad.

U.S. District Judge Ricardo Urbina dismissed the case against the guards accused of the shooting in a crowded Baghdad intersection in 2007.

How these Blackwater guards ever get back their reputations or careers after this legal assault by these prosecutors is the question?

Raven 23, Nisoor Square Incident, Donald Ball, Dustin Heard, Evan Liberty, Nick Slatten, Paul Slough, DOJ, Iraq

Wow, this is amazing. From Ch. 7 -Ashville,NC:

A rockslide on Interstate 40 in Haywood County has closed down a portion of the interstate at the North Carolina-Tennessee border.

The North Carolina Department of Transportation says it will take three months to clear the debris from a rockslide in Haywood County and reopen Interstate 40 to traffic.

The NCDOT announced a three-step plan Tuesday to deal with the situation at the three mile marker of I-40 near the North Carolina/Tennessee border.

Interstate 40 is now closed at exit 20 in North Carolina to exit 451 in Tennessee.

There’s also video at the link.

I-40 Rock slide, TN and NC border