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\"maliki.jpg\"<\/a>Maliki blasts Blackwater firm for other incidents
\nBy Leila Fadel — McClatchy Newspapers
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\nBAGHDAD — Blackwater security guards who protect top U.S. diplomats in Iraq have been involved in at least seven serious incidents, some of which resulted in the deaths of innocent civilians, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki said Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Maliki didn’t detail the incidents, which he said add to the case against the North Carolina-based security firm. Blackwater’s license to operate here has been revoked while U.S. and Iraqi officials investigate a shooting Sunday that Iraqi officials now say left at least 11 people dead.<\/p>\n

But Defense Ministry spokesman Mohammed al Askari told McClatchy Newspapers that one of the incidents was former Iraqi Electricity Minister Ahyam al Samarrai’s escape from a Green Zone jail in December. Samarrai had been awaiting sentencing on charges that he had embezzled $2.5 billion that was intended to rebuild Iraq’s decrepit electricity grid.<\/p>\n

Another incident, Askari said, was the shooting death last month of a Baghdad taxi driver when Blackwater guards led a convoy the wrong way down a street. When the taxi driver failed to stop quickly enough as the convoy approached, the Blackwater guards opened fire, Askari said.<\/p>\n

Maliki left no doubt that he had already made up his mind about Blackwater’s culpability in Sunday’s incident, which Blackwater has characterized as an ambush, but which survivors and witnesses have described as an unprovoked shooting spree.<\/p>\n

The prime minister said Iraqi citizens were shot in “cold blood.”<\/p>\n

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