Gunshots in Nisoor Square

Blackwater security guards were involved in a shooting at Baghdad's Nisoor Square on Sept. 16 in which 14 Iraqi civilians were killed and 18 injured, according to hospital records. The sequence of events, as described by Iraqi witnesses:


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