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Blackwater Security Guards Handed Lengthy Sentences For Iraqi Killings

Four former Blackwater guards were sentenced Monday in the 2007 mass shootings of civilians in Baghdad, Iraq (from left): Dustin Heard, Evan Liberty, Nicholas Slatten and Paul Slough. Heard, Liberty and Slough received 30-year sentences. Slatten was sentenced to life in prison. (AP)
Four former Blackwater guards were sentenced Monday in the 2007 mass shootings of civilians in Baghdad, Iraq (from left): Dustin Heard, Evan Liberty, Nicholas Slatten and Paul Slough. Heard, Liberty and Slough received 30-year sentences. Slatten was sentenced to life in prison. (AP)

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