Blackwater manager told US investigator 'I could kill you'

American authorities were investigating Blackwater before notorious 2007 Iraq shootings

Blackwater security employees
(Image credit: MARWAN NAAMANI/AFP/Getty Images)

Documents published today suggest that a private security contractor with a $1bn contract to protect American diplomats in Iraq was out of control – and under investigation by the US government – before the notorious Nisour Square shootings.

Blackwater Security Consulting, now renamed and reconstituted, gained notoriety after the disputed incident on 16 September 2007 when its personnel, trying to clear the way for a US convoy, shot at Iraqi civilians, killing 17 and injuring 20.

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