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Watching Blackwater

May 08

7:24 AM

Re 'Efforts to assuage Iraqi killings involving Blackwater hit block' (front page, May 6):

Our hearts go out to Mohammed Hafidh Abdul-Razzaq for the loss of his 10-year-old son and to the other 17 families of Iraqi citizens gunned down in the September 2007, Nisoor Square Massacre in Bagdad.

Many other innocent people were injured in this incident involving Blackwater security agents.

Physician Haitham Rubaie, who lost his wife, a doctor and his son in the massacre, couldn't believe that with the investigation still going on, the State Department would renew the Blackwater contract this past April.

He considers this an abuse of human life. What will it take to make Blackwater accountable?

Amber Stanley

Southern Shores

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